Re: Command and Data Pipe questions

"Lionel B" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> I wonder whether it might be worth your while having a look at the
Octave
> numerical programming suite (an open source Matlab clone, more or less):
>

I did look at the Octave Web site and also an Octave Newsgroup.  The 
decision to keep working with Perl and Gnuplot was made in part because it

appears to me that there are more people developing applications for them.

As a consequence I would expect the level of sup****t to be better for
them.