Re: An easy way to simple scientific plots (in Ada)?

[Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net>]

On Dec 30, 8:40 pm, JPWoodr...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Dec 30, 2:25 pm, Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Dec 28, 12:53 pm, JPWoodr...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > > On Dec 27, 1:23 pm, Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> wrote:
>
> > > > On Dec 26, 11:37 am, JPWoodr...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > > > > I'm an old Ada hobbyist who would like to plot some data from a
> > > > > computation.
>
> > > > In my opinion, PLplot is exactly what you need.
>
> > > Sounds like something I'd like to try.   But google doesn't tell me
> > > (at least not directly) how to find it.
>
> > > Reminds me of my friend who says "I'll buy you a beer" but doesn't say
> > > when ;-)
>
> > > --
>
> > > Also thanks Jeffrey Creem for reminding me of gnuplot.   I'm getting
> > > good early results with that.
>
> > > John
>
> > I'm not sure what to say--just type PLplot into Google and the top hit
> > is "PLplot Home Page."
>
> I guess what I say now is "duh".  But when I do "plplot Ada", google
> gets pretty vague.
>
> With your suggestion, I downloaded plplot5.8 and had a look.  There's
> quite a lot of C there, and I'm pretty C-averse. (I managed to avoid
> learning it for work for 30-odd years, so I'll just continue like
> that.)
>
> I want to keep a limit on how much graphics I have to think about, so
> plplot is more than I'll pursue.  I'm glad you showed it to me and I
> hope you'll continue to make it into a successful product.
>
> John

Thanks for taking a look at PLplot. I'm as averse to C as you are (I
learned just enough to do the binding). But the point of having the
Ada binding is so that Ada programmers don't have to look at C at all.
I guess when you look at the documentation the function calls are in
C, but once you find the function you need, just look at the Ada
version in the spec file and you're good to go. And the Ada-only
"simple plotters" have no C corollaries at all. I do intend to write
some documentation for the Ada binding at some point, however. But
really, for an most Ada programmers, just look at the specs.

Jerry