RE: [Plplot-devel] gnuplot to PLplot translation

[Maurice L. <mj...@ga...>]

Maurice LeBrun writes:
 > I'm wondering if this is something that's amenable to a flex/yacc treatment.
 > If so a flex/yacc expert could probably whip something out in a few days, and
 > we'd just need to add the underlying support routines for doing the actual
 > plots.  That way we could support gnuplot "natively" through a new set of
 > bindings.  Eventually adding plplot-specific enhancements, of course.

BTW I think of this as a "binding" because it does (barely) fit into the
paradigm of a mapping from some arbitrary API onto plplot core intrinsics.
Each binding we have is a thoroughly independent beast, although we try
to make the API's similar.  In this case, we don't. :)

And as a binding, it would eventually come with a set of example programs that
reproduce the current example set.  Using the "PLplot command superset" as
necessary..

Sounds like a pretty cool project.

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Maurice LeBrun    mj...@ga...