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I have been probably been working with computers quite a bit longer than you have. And that includes doing extensive amounts of work with the analog to digital circuits and digital to analog circuits that are often used to link computers with external devices, and even work with optical cables. I have also had an extensive amount of formal training with programming and Internet work.

One of the goals of my forecasting program effort is to have a version of the program that can run unattended at an Internet Web site. I could create that program now if I had the time available. And when you have a program like that running on a Web site it can’t have a spreadsheet running as part of the main program. It has to consist only of Web page input and display pages plus the actual CGI program and support files.

Suggestion

If you would like to do something that has some substance to it and might be helpful to many then you might try to learn how to compile the Gnuplot plotting program in a form that it could be used as a Perl language module. Those Perl modules are linked with Perl programs when they start running and provide them with some extra type of capability such as performing special math functions. And although the Perl language can already do just about everything under the sun, as far as I can tell, it can’t draw plots. If Gnuplot could be compiled as a linkable module then that would take care of that.

This could be quite useful to scientists and researchers around the world who might decide to start using Perl if it could just draw plots.

As it is, data have to be sent by Perl to Gnuplot through routines managed by the operating system, be it Windows or whatever. And that slows the process and makes it far more complex.

Both Perl and Gnuplot are I believe written in C++. So, the compiling project would probably not be very difficult. And there are likely numerous Perl and Gnuplot experts out there who would be willing to help. But no one appears to want to actually get the project running. I myself don’t have time. And I am not an expert on Perl module creation.