At 16:21 18/09/98 +0100, Keith S. Wansbrough wrote:
>> > Without any intention of denigrating excellent work in Haskell, is
>> > there any reason to prefer this over gnuplot? What is it?
>>
>> What can I answer here on "what is it?"? See for yourself
>> on my html page - I am not hiding anything. Far from being
>> finished (for example, the phase portrait type of plots
>> would be handy too) this little module demonstrate the
>> right level of Haskell abstraction and flexibility, I think.
>>
>> Believe me, I tried very hard to find anything on gnuplot
>> vs. gif output: their faq, manual, etc. And I could not find
>> anything. If gnuplot has such capability than I am not the
>> one to blame but their own outdated documentation.
>
>different from gnuplot. Gnuplot is specifically for graph drawing;
>the Gif writer is a wrapper around a general graphics-drawing library
>(for GIF output), *plus* some graph-drawing functions as well. It
>looks like it could be very useful for anyone needing to generate GIFs
>from Haskell -- for example, in CGI-Haskell scripts generating images
>on the fly.
>
>> Being as lazy as anyone, I do not find writing this sort of
>> things exceedingly exciting. But once I have done it I really
>> enjoy the fruits of my labour, because this is exactly what I
>> wanted for my more serious work at hand, where Haskell program
>
>Great, thank you! This is of course one of the things that makes for
>a successful language - look at Perl for example.
>
>In fact, thinking of this reminds me of CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl
>Archive Network (http://www.perl.com/CPAN). We need a CHAN for
>Haskell. http://www.haskell.org/libraries.html has some stuff, but
>not everything - for example, DoCon, Fun->PDF, and Gif writer are not
>there. Having a single unified repository for Haskell modules would
>be a wonderful thing. Does anyone else agree?
Yes, actually I agree (and probably everybody does)! But perhaps the
best choice is to enhance www.haskell.org/libraries.html rather than
creating a
whole new site. It would be great if all us report our developments to the
Haskell site (well, in case the webmaster agrees too), so one can find if what
he/she need is already done, or it has to be made.
Walter.
>--KW 8-)
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