From MAILER-DAEMON@www.ccl.net Sat Jul 12 10:06:36 1997 Received: from schiele for MAILER-DAEMON@www.ccl.net by www.ccl.net (8.8.3/950822.1) id JAA11949; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 09:16:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by schiele (950911.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH825/940406.SGI.AUTO) for chemistry@www.ccl.net id PAA15694; Sat, 12 Jul 1997 15:16:52 +0200 From: "Wolf-Dietrich Ihlenfeldt" Message-Id: <9707121516.ZM15692@eros.ccc.uni-erlangen.de> Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 15:16:48 -0600 In-Reply-To: "Bob Goldstein" "CCL:Object-oriented means for computational chemistry programming" (Jul 11, 14:10) References: <199707111915.PAA09791@www.ccl.net> Reply-To: wdi@eros.ccc.uni-erlangen.de X-Phones: +49-9131-85-6579 X-Fax: +49-9131-85-6566 X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.2 10apr95 MediaMail) To: chemistry@www.ccl.net Subject: Re: CCL:Object-oriented means for computational chemistry programming Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On Jul 11, 14:10, Bob Goldstein wrote: > Subject: CCL:Object-oriented means for computational chemistry programming > > > > Some things, like mixed Fortran77 and C, are now so common that there > > is a community of people out there who understand pretty well how to > > > >Are you offering your services? :-) Perhaps it's not as bad as it > >looks from my end, but if I had to rely on the kindness of unpaid > [...snip ...] > > Hmm. How about mixed tcl/C ? The tcl interpreter is done in C, > so rebuilding the interpreter is not mixed-language. But the > result would be -- use tcl (slow as molasses, but lots of > high level constructs like hashes, regular expressions, flow > control) for the putting-together-the-tools part, and let > C (or fortran) do the heavy lifting. > > Someone could provide a toolkit of tcl commands written in C, > and anyone could put the tools together in new ways using > a highlevel scripting language. I think perl and python > would also work as scripting languages here. This is > not just object-oriented (for the programmer) but also > somewhat component-oriented (for the application builder or > end user). Such a toolkit does indeed exist. See http://schiele.organik.uni-erlangen.de/cactvs/ >-- End of excerpt from Bob Goldstein -- Dr. Wolf-D. Ihlenfeldt Computer Chemistry Center, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg Naegelsbachstrasse 25, D-91052 Erlangen (Germany) Tel (+49)-(0)9131-85-6579 Fax (+49)-(0)9131-85-6566 --- The three proven methods for ultimate success and fame: 1) Nakanu nara koroshite shimae hototogisu 2) Nakanu nara nakasete miseyou hototogisu 3) Nakanu nara naku made matou hototogisu