"Sebastien Vauban" <sva-n...@mygooglest.com>
writes:

> As you say, I guess that one could copy/paste the code from maxima, octave or
> R to get the desired results.
>
> Would we want to abstract the above, I guess we should generalize the
> languages families as:
>
> - Graphics-only languages (ditaa, dot, gnuplot, etc.)
>
> - General-purpose languages with graphical capacities (R, maxima, octave...
>   And, at least, python[1] IIUC)

Python features very sophisticated graphics through matplotlib (at
least on par with R/ggplot2).

> - General-purpose languages without graphical capacities (sql, sh, etc.)

Sounds like a good idea to me.  I don't know whether it would save a
lot of effort though or make it easier to get functions spread out?

–Rasmus

-- 
When in doubt, do it!


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