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

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@acm.nospam.org>]

JPWoodruff@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm an old Ada hobbyist who would like to plot some data from a
> computation. What I want is scientific plots that are sort of the
> opposite of industrial strength, in that small effort produces small
> result but has no aspiration to scale.
> 
> I've collected beaucoup graphics libraries over the years - (claw,
> gwindows, jewl, win_io, windex, once upon a time a fairly immature
> gtkada...)
> 
> But I'm not a devotee of U-I programming so I've never committed much
> thinking to any of these.  I'm going to stay uninvolved with buttons,
> callbacks and dialogs.  Instead, I just like to compute and plot
> numeric
> values.  I wish I could do that in a context that didn't make me learn
> all that stuff I'm not using.
> 
> So can I ask for a suggestion: which library would be simplest for me
> to install and use for my task?

Package Plot_Windows from Win_IO seems to do what you want. It's small and easy 
to use, and doesn't require that you do anything different with the rest of your 
application.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Alms for an ex-leper!"
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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