> > Without any intention of denigrating excellent work in Haskell, is
> > there any reason to prefer this over gnuplot? What is it?
>
> What can I answer here on "what is it?"? See for yourself
> on my html page - I am not hiding anything. Far from being
> finished (for example, the phase portrait type of plots
> would be handy too) this little module demonstrate the
> right level of Haskell abstraction and flexibility, I think.
>
> Believe me, I tried very hard to find anything on gnuplot
> vs. gif output: their faq, manual, etc. And I could not find
> anything. If gnuplot has such capability than I am not the
> one to blame but their own outdated documentation.
different from gnuplot. Gnuplot is specifically for graph drawing;
the Gif writer is a wrapper around a general graphics-drawing library
(for GIF output), *plus* some graph-drawing functions as well. It
looks like it could be very useful for anyone needing to generate GIFs
from Haskell -- for example, in CGI-Haskell scripts generating images
on the fly.
> Being as lazy as anyone, I do not find writing this sort of
> things exceedingly exciting. But once I have done it I really
> enjoy the fruits of my labour, because this is exactly what I
> wanted for my more serious work at hand, where Haskell program
Great, thank you! This is of course one of the things that makes for
a successful language - look at Perl for example.
In fact, thinking of this reminds me of CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl
Archive Network (http://www.perl.com/CPAN). We need a CHAN for
Haskell. http://www.haskell.org/libraries.html has some stuff, but
not everything - for example, DoCon, Fun->PDF, and Gif writer are not
there. Having a single unified repository for Haskell modules would
be a wonderful thing. Does anyone else agree?
--KW 8-)
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