From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Linas Vepstas Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Plotting in Guile Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:26:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1DD44717-011B-4D6B-BC6E-2640D50B92F2@telia.com> Reply-To: linasvepstas@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280341639 23762 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2010 18:27:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:27:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: Joel James Adamson Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 28 20:27:15 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeBLU-00082h-1F for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:27:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44655 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OeBLT-0000BZ-B8 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:27:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34267 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OeBLE-0000BT-53 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:26:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeBLC-0000fv-SS for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:26:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:54154) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeBLC-0000fo-OH for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:26:54 -0400 Original-Received: by eydd26 with SMTP id d26so1244071eyd.0 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:26:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:reply-to :in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/Lu9PlakB6GAemN3lMq7Dujiq/vhZXcBDy2TJHNBzfY=; b=GclMNETrTuVRWAQJkFky6A0e19mnsJTYDw7YzRxoCOg2PdlFp73579z4DnnKvBofSq 6o5tsLJ+QLFHIEp674+IsVHuBFZae3WK72Z6xup/h5qFkLomgiI6JXAoa7HkoJo9/IRT fPAiRrfPcQJ+v3qOfFnTmVAB6gCMii+jdpBYE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=k4WxAK6AhSi8Bgma04S7sGMhbC+qMNcddOScBUZas+UIEFgix0k3kGtg4GUZtw9J9L eiOW7nIuGtYrfGrKsXXrI8o4OYzipBAC7T1XIP5uHJspGAHZS8DqLiHJhGyDVOSDIGqg gFr/zoVLgivW6NdPf3mx3Fu//qtP91NuWetAg= Original-Received: by 10.213.10.138 with SMTP id p10mr6275821ebp.86.1280341613200; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:26:53 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.213.34.134 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:26:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:8019 Archived-At: On 28 July 2010 12:54, Joel James Adamson wrote: > Hans Aberg writes: >> >> GNUPLOT seems to require pipes, if not using a file. > > The question from the IPC newbie (myself): is there something wrong with > pipes? =C2=A0I've read a basic tutorial and they seem to do what I would > need, but the author seemed to think they were worthless. =C2=A0Educate m= e. Nothing. If you are a young programmer who is used to subroutine API's then working with pipes is disconcerting. If you are a hot-shot web designer, then the fact that its not XML and RPC and DTD and stylesheets and whatever makes it feel stone-age. I'm guessing the tutorial author was one/both of those. --linas