From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joel James Adamson Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Plotting in Guile Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:43:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1DD44717-011B-4D6B-BC6E-2640D50B92F2@telia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280342643 27319 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2010 18:44:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:44:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-user@gnu.org To: linasvepstas@gmail.com Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 28 20:44:02 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 1OeBbj-0000qH-V8 for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:44:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51384 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OeBbj-0003PY-Fv for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:43:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34788 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OeBbe-0003PJ-5C for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:43:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeBbc-0003gT-NE for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:43:54 -0400 Original-Received: from chondestes.bio.unc.edu ([152.2.67.61]:33884) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OeBbc-0003gB-E8 for guile-user@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:43:52 -0400 Original-Received: from chondestes.bio.unc.edu (chondestes.bio.unc.edu [127.0.0.1]) by chondestes.bio.unc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o6SIhnKP029821; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:43:49 -0400 Original-Received: (from joel@localhost) by chondestes.bio.unc.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o6SIhnCf029819; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:43:49 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: chondestes.bio.unc.edu: joel set sender to adamsonj@email.unc.edu using -f In-Reply-To: (Linas Vepstas's message of "Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:26:33 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:8020 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Linas Vepstas writes: > 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 = me. > > 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. I see your point: I'm Unix to the core! I just have to figure out how to use pipes... Joel =2D-=20 Joel J. Adamson Servedio Lab University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill FSF Member #8164 http://www.unc.edu/~adamsonj --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAkxQemUACgkQp61eY7lvATIooQEAgUVhNIcmUnhTYncxZ12h1nMe DSQsiekrXw0rDC9naxEA/jkkO1m5zoklta2cu5dnStjUQYONaTRNsJqTdNGWk+6j =sHSY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--