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Re: ROOT/gnuplot



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Hi,

Christian Holm Christensen wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 23:48 +0200, Yannick patois wrote:
>>As far as I know, nothing has been done, but as I have been busy on
>>other subject at that time, I lost track of that subject. That's why I
>>forward it on the debian-science list where this discussion occurred.
>>I'm still interested to contribute to such a project.

> Hmm, writing a GNUPlot-like front-end for ROOT, is about the sillyst
> thing I've heard in a long time.
> In essence, I think you'd be wasting your time pursuing a GNUPlot-like
> interface to ROOT.  Time much better spent learning C++ (or teaching
> others the basics of C++), writing a GUI, or do scientific work :-)

When i thought to this idea, I wrote in a minut a 10 lines program that
instancied a TRint object and called it "rootplot"... Then I wondered
where to go and I stopped there. So basically I understand your position.

But anyway, I belive that adding a few class for quicker interactions
could be useful. Eg, when you take this example:
"TNtuple nt("X:Y:EX:EY");
nt.ReadFile("data.dat", 0);
nt.Draw("X","Y");"

Why not replace it by something like:
TPlot("data.dat","1:2");

I'm sure TPlot() is not a good class name, and maybe "1:2" not the best
way to say "plot first column against second". But that's exactly the
points that have to be discussed in such a project...

	Yannick

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