From jochen@pc1.uni-duesseldorf.de Mon Oct 27 05:43:07 1997 Received: from sirene.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de for jochen@pc1.uni-duesseldorf.de by www.ccl.net (8.8.3/950822.1) id EAA23357; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 04:33:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from bacchus.pc1.uni-duesseldorf.de by sirene.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de with SMTP (PP); Mon, 27 Oct 1997 10:32:44 +0100 Received: by bacchus.pc1.uni-duesseldorf.de (5.65v3.2/1.1.10.5/06Jan97-0309PM) id AA20391; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 10:32:47 +0100 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 10:32:47 +0100 From: Jochen Kuepper Message-Id: <9710270932.AA20391@bacchus.pc1.uni-duesseldorf.de> To: chemistry@www.ccl.net, mathieu@ripault.cea.fr Subject: Re: CCL:langage MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-Md5: bThaxdwYLhQPIi5z751Mfg== :> For me I have to choose a programming langage. Indeed, facing a = serious :> need for a broad range of specific programs for molecular engineering = of :> energetic materials (implementing simple and efficient empirical = models :> based on molecular mechanics, groups increments, QSPR = relationships...)=20 :> we have these programs written by students who remain in the team for :> short training periods (few months).=20 :> In this context of fairly long-term projects with high turnover and = poor :> communication between succesive programmers, pieces of code written = by :> some people must be used easily by others, hence codes must be at = least :> modular. Experience with Fortran has shown us that training students, :> because of the limited time allocated, are in a hurry to implement as :> much as possible, and resulting code is not well structured. On the :> other hand, since they are mostly students in physics or chemistry, = most :> of them do not master C or C++ , although all of them have some :> programming experience, for instance with Pascal or Basic. :>=20 :> According to me, none of those free langages, C, C++ and Fortran, is = a :> good choice and I am looking for a SIMPLE langage supporting = REUSABILITY :> and QUICK DEVELOPMENT.=20 :>=20 I would say C++ is not that hard to learn, if you are using it for=20 impererative programming. But you might as well want to take a look at phyton or Tcl/Tk. Jochen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jochen K=FCpper Heinrich-Heine-Universit=E4t D=FCsseldorf = jochen@uni-duesseldorf.de Institut f=FCr Physikalische Chemie I Universit=E4tsstrasse 1, Geb 26.43.02.19 phone ++49-211-8113681 40225 D=FCsseldorf fax ++49-211-8115195 Germany http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~jochen -----------------------------------------------------------------------