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Posted by Inventor on August 4, 2007, 10:37 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?
>
> > 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
>
> > 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.
>
> > I might go with:
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> > Chart::Plot::Ascii
>
> 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.
Thanks, that seems like the right name for it! Now I have a lot to
learn before releasing the module, so its off to documentation
reading!
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