Re^3: Intro to plotting with perl

However, the linked node has a bunch of extraneous garbage.

I don't see anything extraneous or any garbage. I found that node months ago when I was curious about gnuplot and found it to be short and sweet and to the point with helpful links.

(Also, it doesn't even work, since it doesn't bother to flush the temporary file before using it.)

It has been a while since I tried the code in that node but I just remember quickly having a plot of a pretty spiral without much (any) effort on my part.

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Re^4: Intro to plotting with perl by educated_foo (Vicar) on Jan 04, 2012 at 22:44 UTC
I don't see anything extraneous or any garbage. How do strict.pm, warnings.pm, and IO/Handle.pm help plot a graph? Why is Perl 5.10 necessary? All that is superstitious, useless programming.	[reply]
Re^5: Intro to plotting with perl by GrandFather (Saint) on Jan 05, 2012 at 06:41 UTC
No, strictures at least are a life saving mantra, least least for those of us who are less than perfect. Sure, if you never write a bad line of code or mistype a variable name you don't need the early heads up that such helpers and rote coding practises provide, but there are precious few who are in that fortunate position and those few are exceedingly unlikely to include anyone looking for help. True laziness is hard work	[reply]