I still think the Julia way matches better to reality. You can go up to a kid and ask "can you draw me a cow?", and they draw it, and later ask "can you show me the cow?" and they'll show it to you. If you're standing right there (i.e. using the iterative REPL at its highest scope) you'll see it just cause you're standing there.
For many longer codes, I don't want to see all of the plots. Some longer calculations may generate hundreds of plots. I want those plotted and saved, not displayed. And I think it's safe to say that if someone is running something non-iterative (i.e. a script where displaying is off by default) they don't want it to throw a bunch of junk to the screen, just what they ask for. (In fact, one of the biggest issues I see with newcomers running compiled MATLAB batch scripts is the fact that they don't tell it to close every plot at the bottom of the script. Thus the scripts keep running because they accidentally have windows open... even though you can't see them. This causes infinite runtimes and having to cancel scripts.) While I agree Julia is not perfect, this is something that MATLAB has trained people to think the unintuitive way (and it causes problems when it doesn't work, like in the batch scripts), not the other way around. On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 7:52:43 AM UTC-7, NotSoRecentConvert wrote: > > Looks like we're interpreting the same sentence to mean different things. > When I use plot as a verb I mean to create and show a visual representation > of the data. It's like if I were to ask you to draw something. I don't mean > imagine drawing it and then physically drawing when I ask you to show it to > me. >
