Is Gnuplot suitable for scripting?

Is Gnuplot suitable for scripting?

- Yes. Gnuplot is suitable for scripting.

- The scripts can be read by gnuplot during an interactive session.

- It also runs in batch mode.

- Running in batch mode is done by piping a pre-existing file.

- A stream of commands can also be sent to stdin, to run in batch mode.

- Packages such as Octave is easily wrapped in a cgi script to be used as a web-driven plot generator.