Subject: Re: CCL:Gaussian Flame-wars

From: "Dr. N. SUKUMAR" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 13:50:20 EST

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:24:37 +0000 Pascal Boulet wrote:

>  It's of course
> easier
> to click on a button rather than looking for command lines in the manual!

I may be part of a very rapidly dwindling paleozoic minority, but I
actually find it easier and more intuitive to learn simple keywords (like
HF/6-31G* or CISD) than to memorize arcane heiroglyphs (icons) for every
single action in this world, as seems to be the fashion nowadays.

> 
> Black-boxes are of course very user friendly, but in some cases it can
> also lead to non-reproducible results.
> 

ESPECIALLY when the source code is not made available for these
"user-friendly" programs.

Dr. N. Sukumar
Rensselaer Department of Chemistry