From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,b1a5713afb4e5c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!l6g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Jerry Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: An easy way to simple scientific plots (in Ada)? Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:02:22 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <41bd2384-83a7-46ff-87e9-d726623633e9@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <01688775-bb6d-4af8-b11d-127af010bef9@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <5c68e305-a892-4f9c-9651-05eab4de1d50@l6g2000prm.googlegroups.com> <73de5421-d3b6-4c5c-9ecb-3b49e46cea51@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <0e03cf22-4c08-4392-ada8-ab5344b8fbda@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.171.118.172 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1199095342 18794 127.0.0.1 (31 Dec 2007 10:02:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:02:22 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l6g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.171.118.172; posting-account=x5rpZwoAAABMN2XPwcebPWPkebpwQNJG User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/523.12.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.12.2,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19106 Date: 2007-12-31T02:02:22-08:00 List-Id: On Dec 30, 8:40=A0pm, JPWoodr...@gmail.com wrote: > On Dec 30, 2:25 pm, Jerry wrote: > > > > > On Dec 28, 12:53 pm, JPWoodr...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > On Dec 27, 1:23 pm, Jerry 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. =A0 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. =A0 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". =A0But when I do "plplot Ada", google > gets pretty vague. > > With your suggestion, I downloaded plplot5.8 and had a look. =A0There'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. =A0I'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