<s>
DISLIN	B-Application
is	O
a	O
high-level	O
plotting	O
library	B-Library
developed	O
by	O
Helmut	O
Michels	O
at	O
the	O
Max	O
Planck	O
Institute	O
for	O
Solar	O
System	O
Research	O
in	O
Göttingen	O
,	O
Germany	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Helmut	O
Michels	O
has	O
worked	O
as	O
a	O
mathematician	O
and	O
Unix	B-Application
system	I-Application
manager	O
at	O
the	O
computer	O
center	O
of	O
the	O
institute	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
DISLIN	B-Application
library	B-Library
contains	O
routines	O
and	O
functions	O
for	O
displaying	O
data	O
as	O
curves	O
,	O
bar	O
graphs	O
,	O
pie	B-Application
charts	I-Application
,	O
3D-colour	O
plots	O
,	O
surfaces	O
,	O
contours	O
and	O
maps	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Several	O
output	O
formats	O
are	O
supported	O
such	O
as	O
X11	B-Operating_System
,	O
VGA	B-Protocol
,	O
PostScript	B-Language
,	O
PDF	B-Application
,	O
CGM	O
,	O
WMF	O
,	O
EMF	O
,	O
SVG	B-Application
,	O
HPGL	B-Language
,	O
PNG	O
,	O
BMP	B-Device
,	O
PPM	O
,	O
GIF	O
and	O
TIFF	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
DISLIN	B-Application
is	O
available	O
for	O
the	O
programming	O
languages	O
Fortran	B-Application
77	O
,	O
Fortran	B-Application
90/95	O
and	O
C	B-Language
.	O
Plotting	O
extensions	O
for	O
the	O
languages	O
Perl	B-Language
,	O
Python	B-Language
,	O
Java	B-Language
,	O
Julia	B-Application
,	O
Ruby	B-Language
,	O
Go	B-Application
and	O
Tcl	B-Operating_System
are	O
also	O
supported	O
for	O
most	O
operating	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
is	O
a	O
third-party	O
package	O
to	O
use	O
DISLIN	B-Application
from	O
IDL	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
current	O
version	O
of	O
DISLIN	B-Application
is	O
11.5	O
,	O
released	O
in	O
March	O
2022	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
version	O
11.3	O
the	O
DISLIN	B-Application
software	O
is	O
free	O
for	O
non-commercial	O
and	O
commercial	O
use	O
.	O
</s>
