Hi Jim, > > Would it be better to just put a simple PRNG into example 21? PLplot is > a plotting library and I think it is better to focus on that.
The drawback of this would be, that we would need to port the RNG to all languages we provided, rather than providing just an interface to RNG code in the library, with all the problems (rounding, etc.). Apart from that, for my thesis I produced a lot of the plots with C programs using plplot and needed a RNG from time to time. Providing a cross platform RNG which produces the same results for all languages and platforms (e.g. for reproducibility) is within the scope of a plotting library I think. And as I wrote - it doesn't make the size of the library much bigger, so if it's not used, we don't care. It's a utility function for making plots. And since the Mersenne Twister is a well tested code (e.g. MT is used a lot in Viruses :), I think it's not a bad choice, though there is some criticism. Regards, Werner -- Dr. Werner Smekal Institut fuer Allgemeine Physik Technische Universitaet Wien Wiedner Hauptstr 8-10 A-1040 Wien Austria email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~smekal phone: +43-(0)1-58801-13463 (office) +43-(0)1-58801-13469 (laboratory) fax: +43-(0)1-58801-13499 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
