Desing Goals and decisions

Design goals

• Provide core plot functionality in pure c++
• Reliable. Crashes and hangups are not acceptable.
• Reasonble performance
  
• Make porting as easy as possible
• Reasonable plots on all platforms
  

Design Decisions

• No attempt is made to make plots portable up to the pixel. (For instance, there is no cross platform font class.)
• No attempt is made to create plot widgets cross platform. (This could be done with a factory)
• Explain functionality in both example code and documentation