In message <i9v3oh$51...@reader1.panix.com>, kj wrote: > matplotlib, even in its underlying so-called "OO mode", follows > MATLAB's graphics model, which, in my very subjective opinion, is > vastly inferior to Mathematica's.
Speaking as someone who once had to do GUI programming in MATLAB, I think it’s really only good for one thing: matrix manipulation. Everything else is a tacked-on crock. > The latter allows for a clean separation between the textual > specification of a graphic object (which can be very complex), and > its graphic representation. Furthermore, it is general enough to > allow for the composition of graphic objects within other graphic > objects, to arbitrary depth levels. This readily allows for the > representation of complex composite figures ... I thought every graphics representation worth its salt allowed that. SVG, for example. Why not have a look at that? It’s cross-platform, and easy to generate and parse using XML libraries. > More generally, despite its usefulness, I find MATLAB in the end > to be one big ugly hack, so, as a developer, I would prefer to stay > clear of anything that is modeled after MATLAB, however loosely. Amen. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list