gnuplot is not related to the GNU project or the FSF in any but the most peripheral sense. Our software was designed completely independently and the name "gnuplot" was actually a compromise. I wanted to call it "llamaplot" and Colin wanted to call it "nplot." We agreed that "newplot" was acceptable but, we then discovered that there was an absolutely ghastly pascal program of that name that the Computer Science Dept. occasionally used. I decided that "gnuplot" would make a nice pun and after a
GNUとは関係ありません (スコア:4, 参考になる)
Re:GNUとは関係ありません (スコア:-1, フレームのもと)
まるで間違った読み方 (スコア:1)
# GNU は「ぐにゅ」でいいんでしたよね?
Re:まるで間違った読み方(ゴミです) (スコア:0)
「グニュプロット」と知ったときの脱力感も忘れがたい:-)
Re:まるで間違った読み方(ゴミです) (スコア:0)
ですので、動物のgnu (ヌー)と同様、gnuplotのgは発音しません。