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I find Gnuplot syntax to be terse and unintuitive, and having poor discoverability without constantly refer to the docs.
by billfruit 2y ago
I find Gnuplot syntax to be terse and unintuitive, and having poor discoverability without constantly refer to the docs.
- setopt 2y agoIn Gnuplot you can indeed write each command in a very terse way; some simple examples: plot cos(x) ls 2, sin(x) ls 3 plot 'file.dat' u 1:2 w lp lw 3 ps 2 But you can also write the same code in a descriptive way: plot cos(x) linestyle 2, sin(x) linestyle 3 plot 'file.dat' using 1:2 with linespoints linewidth 3 pointsize 2 I think most people prefer the terse version once they learn it. But I’d definitely recommend learning the descriptive commands first, as the abbreviations follow very naturally from there.