Re: PGPLOT

[Jarle Brinchmann]

Phil Austin writes:
 > >>>>> "JWE" == John W Eaton <address@hidden> writes:

<JWE talking about improvements to the Octave plotting capabilities>


 > Lack of a good free plotting package is a sticking point for several
 > numerically-oriented interpreted languages.  There has been some
 > discussion of this on the Numeric Python mailing list as well, and
 > perhaps a group effort spanning Octave, Python, Perl data language,
 > etc. could produce something.

For PDL (Perl Data Language), this also recently came up. It used to
be based on PGPLOT, but there has been some discussion to make a very
general graphics interface in the package and then support several
final "rendering" packages. 

(See http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/kgb/perldl/ for info about PDL
and links to the archive)

It think this might be a better way to go. There are always people who
like one plotting package better than others, so if a general
interface that could work with several packages could be conceived,
that would definitely be preferrable. (Esp. when porting code)

                        Jarle.