I suspect that the plot formatting syntax is very old. I remember doing stuff li...

petsfed 58 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Book Review: "Tidy First?" By Kent Beck

I suspect that the plot formatting syntax is very old. I remember doing stuff like that with SuperMongo (popular amongst astrophysics ca 2002), which predates e.g. MatPlotLib. It may be as old as computer controlled plotters themselves.