Re: Fun with C

["Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma@12000.org>]

On 4/23/2011 10:52 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:28:24 -0700, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
>
>> Also, Fortran does not have plotting ability build-in, so if a
>> student solves a differential equation using Fortran and wants to
>> plot the solution, then how to do it?
>

> If I correctly remember grafor (Graphical FORTRAN?) was the first ever
> plotting library.
>
> Not that I am advocating FORTRAN, of course... (:-))
>

I never heard of the above. I collect list of all plotting
libraries for Fortran, and that one is not on my list, will add it.

Here is the current list I have now (added your reference)

1. PGPLOT
2. PLPLOT
3.  PSPLOT
4. DISLIN
5. F90GL
6. GINO
7. grafor (per this post)

But whatever it is, it will have the same problem as all the
others: it will not be available on the student computer at school,
since it is not part of the system. A student can't just go
download something from the net, build it, etc.. since this is not
allowed to do at school computers.

It is really better for students and the teacher to use one known
and fully packaged system, which has easy to use graphics,
build-in math functions, debugger, editor etc.. all from one
source.

--Nasser