[ILUG] gnuplot question

[Lars Hecking]

Paul Jakma writes:
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Lars Hecking wrote:
> 
> >  of gnuplot (I have already rewritten significant parts of the parser;
> >  not quite finished yet). Post-3.7 versions of gnuplot will for instance
> >  allow arbitrary ordering of command options.
> 
> that would be most useful.. it took me ages to figure out why it
> wouldn't grok title, until i looked really closely at the ordering of
> some of the examples.

 gnuplot goes back to 1986, and we are still fighting most of the
 old design decisions, although during the beta test phase between
 3.5 and 3.7 (between 1993 and 1998 ...), significant parts of the
 code were cleaned up, in addition to all the new features :)