<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>chestervonwinch</author><text>Have you used Fortran? Have you tried f2py, which converts Fortran modules into NumPy compatible Python modules? I would rather use Fortran over C++ in a heartbeat for scientific computing. For what it&amp;#x27;s worth, I thought for years that Fortran was an old crusty language, not worthy of my time, choosing to use C++ instead, and I regret not picking it up sooner.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Y_Y</author><text>Gnuplot is something i categorise with Fortran and hand writing latex as &amp;quot;I use use it because my advisor used it, and he used it because his advisor used it...&amp;quot;. I understand that they were once the best tool for the job and they still work, but better alternatives have emerged since, e.g. matplotlib, C++&amp;#x2F;numpy and LyX respectively. I know this is a subjective matter but i feel it&amp;#x27;s a shame that a lot of scientist don&amp;#x27;t shop around and hence end up stuck with the &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; option.</text></item><item><author>leephillips</author><text>Gnuplot is designed to work with LaTeX. If you want a unified appearance, with textual elements on the graph typeset by TeX, then that workflow is built-in to gnuplot.&lt;p&gt;You can also use TikZ to call gnuplot from within the LaTeX document, or generate TikZ code from within gnuplot.&lt;p&gt;A very brief introduction:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lwn.net&amp;#x2F;Articles&amp;#x2F;628537&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lwn.net&amp;#x2F;Articles&amp;#x2F;628537&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>High quality graphics for Latex documents: The Matlab route</title><url>https://www.io.ac.nz/blog/matlab-to-latex/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>sn41</author><text>Strange. I feel going in the opposite direction. Removing as many fancy latex packages from my documents as possible, because I am worried that my files can&amp;#x27;t be compiled 10-15 years from now.&lt;p&gt;I am a tex&amp;#x2F;latex survivalist :)</text><parent_chain><item><author>Y_Y</author><text>Gnuplot is something i categorise with Fortran and hand writing latex as &amp;quot;I use use it because my advisor used it, and he used it because his advisor used it...&amp;quot;. I understand that they were once the best tool for the job and they still work, but better alternatives have emerged since, e.g. matplotlib, C++&amp;#x2F;numpy and LyX respectively. I know this is a subjective matter but i feel it&amp;#x27;s a shame that a lot of scientist don&amp;#x27;t shop around and hence end up stuck with the &amp;quot;classical&amp;quot; option.</text></item><item><author>leephillips</author><text>Gnuplot is designed to work with LaTeX. If you want a unified appearance, with textual elements on the graph typeset by TeX, then that workflow is built-in to gnuplot.&lt;p&gt;You can also use TikZ to call gnuplot from within the LaTeX document, or generate TikZ code from within gnuplot.&lt;p&gt;A very brief introduction:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lwn.net&amp;#x2F;Articles&amp;#x2F;628537&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lwn.net&amp;#x2F;Articles&amp;#x2F;628537&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>High quality graphics for Latex documents: The Matlab route</title><url>https://www.io.ac.nz/blog/matlab-to-latex/</url></story>