> Together with LaTeX, it was one of the things that made getting into CS research much more difficult than necessary I'm sad you feel this way because I've re

> Together with LaTeX, it was one of the things that made getting into CS research much more difficult than necessary I'm sad you feel this way because I've really enjoyed working with GNUplot and Latex. Sure it has some warts but it generally works well. I might have a test or benchmark that produces results, a GNUplot script to plot it and a Latex document it's embedded to. The whole process from source code to PDF is automated, change the benchmarks, run make and you have a report. Sure there are more user friendly alternatives, or apps that work better in interactive mode, but imagine doing the workflow above using, say, Excel and Word. Or Matplotlib and Google Docs.