-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 An astronomer, a physicist and a mathematician are on a train in Scotland. The astronomer looks out of the window, sees a black sheep standing in a field, and remarks, "How odd. Scottish sheep are black." "No, no, no!" says the physicist. "Only some Scottish sheep are black." The mathematician rolls his eyes at his companions' muddled thinking and says, "In Scotland, there is one sheep, one side of which appears to be black from here." (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_joke, corrected because "at least one" and "one" are semantically equivalent for mathematicians)
Only because none of the people not liking Python bother pointing that out (it's probably not very helpful a comment here), you cannot conclude that "Seems everybody loves it..." - that's poor scientific concluding ;-) Cheers, Tim On 09/12/2012 06:52 PM, Jacob Keller wrote: >> >> For the specific purpose you list - input from tab-delimited >> data output to simple statisitical summaries and (I assume) >> plots - it sounds like gnuplot could do the job nicely. >> > > I wasn't aware that gnuplot can do calculations--can it? I was > probably going to use it somewhere as a plotting option. > > >> Otherwise I'd recommend perl, and dis-recommend python. > > > Why are you dis-ing python? Seems everybody loves it... > > JPK > > > > > >> Ethan >> >> >> -- Ethan A Merritt Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health >> Sciences Bldg University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742 >> > > > - -- - -- Dr Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFQUaKLUxlJ7aRr7hoRAo99AJ9mPdfstxqo9/Xvo64yJ+wtpSeKjgCfcrnJ qfat9V4d6Pdwvo3JbUQZdPU= =QNiW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
