Plotting Using PLPlot

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dsimcha wrote:
> It seems like there's substantial interest in this.  Please give me some use
> cases, i.e. what would you personally use this for, and what do you foresee others
> using it for, so I can start thinking about what the API should be.  I need a wide
> variety of use cases because, if I design the API based only on my personal use
> cases, it will end up being geared entirely toward histograms, scatter plots, and
> line graphs because that's what I use regularly.
> 
> Besides use cases, here are some specific questions:
> 1.  Is there any need for an OO-based API, or should I just use free functions?
> 2.  Does anyone have any use cases where plotting is performance critical, or
> should I just keep things simple/stupid in terms of the performance/simplicity
> tradeoff?

I vote for simple free functions.
1) It will enable us to create a DLL.
2) An OOP framework can be added on top of free functions.
(probably by using mixin templates)
Björn