> So? Can't that be abstracted away once in a custom lib, of the 3-4 plots you use 99% of the time, and be done with it? This does not beat gnuplot's simplicit

> So? Can't that be abstracted away once in a custom lib, of the 3-4 plots you use 99% of the time, and be done with it? This does not beat gnuplot's simplicity where you don't even need to define that. The following line is a complete gnuplot program to plot the sine function: plot sin(x) Every parameter of the plot has reasonable defaults, and you can redefine all of them as you wish.