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== General ==
AIPS is a package to support the reduction and analysis of data taken with radio telescopes. It is most useful for arrays of telescopes like the [[VLA]] and [[VLBA]] and the [[Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope|WSRT]]. In more recent years, it has also been used successfully for [[VLBI]] (very long baseline interferometry).▼
▲AIPS is a package to support the reduction and analysis of data taken with radio telescopes. It is most useful for arrays of telescopes like the [[VLA]] and [[VLBA]] and the [[WSRT]]. In more recent years, it has also been used successfully for [[VLBI]] (very long baseline interferometry).
The software was originally developed by [[NRAO]] in the seventies, and has since grown to be the defacto standard software package in the worldwide radioastronomy community.
== History ==
AIPS is what most of us would now describe as “legacy software”, having been originally coded in a truly ancient dialect of FORTRAN (predating even the venerable FORTRAN IV). AIPS now uses FORTRAN 77, although it has been digested successfully by at least one FORTRAN 90 compiler.
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