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Re:A new release for GNU Octave by billfruit on Sunday January 03, 2021 @09:08AM (#25621826)
GNU plot syntax somehow feels less discoverable, less intuitive, one constantly needs to be looking at the docs while doing it, was my experience.
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Re:A new release for GNU Octave by leephillips on Sunday January 03, 2021 @09:29AM (#25621951)
I can’t really disagree. It takes a while to come to grips with its concepts and language for settings. But basic plotting is concise and intuitive.

I was mainly commenting on its configurability. Gnuplot lets you (once you figure out how) control everything; for example, the exact shape of the arrowheads in a vector plot.

(The name is “gnuplot”; it’s not a GNU project.)

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