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Posted by Dean Arnold on August 4, 2007, 4:36 pm
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Joseph Brenner wrote:
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>> Hi, I've written a module called ASCII_Plot.pm that generates ASCII
>> scatter plots. You give it a reference to an array of (x,y) pairs and
>> it makes a plot in text for you. Kind of like the olden days before
>> graphics were in widespread use... remember VT100? I did not find
>> such a beast on CPAN so I wrote it, and now I need a good name for
>> it. I thought ASCII_Plot would do nicely, but you never know with all
>> those thousands of modules out there. Plus with all the warnings from
>> POSE about chosing a namespace, i thought I would take their advice
>> and ask you to name the module. What's your name for it?
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> Hm... it's hard to believe that someone hasn't covered that
> already, but it's true I don't quite see one out on CPAN
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> There's
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> Graph::Easy::As_ascii
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> But that's for graphing edges, not plotting points.
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> There's a Chart::Plot, but at first glance there doesn't seem to
> be a way to get it to output ascii.
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> I might go with:
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> Chart::Plot::Ascii
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There's already a similar mdule: Text::Graph.
However, its not clear if it supports anything
other than bar charts or (some odd form of) linegraphs.
So how about "Text::Graph::ScatterPlot" ?
Dean Arnold
Presicient Corp.
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