From chemistry-request@ccl.net Fri Dec 6 11:12:01 1991 Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1991 17:57:26 +0200 From: Leif Laaksonen To: Leif.Laaksonen@convex.csc.fi, chemistry@ccl.net, jle@world.std.com, Subject: Re: Application development (entirely) in C Status: R Peter, I don't want to start a war. It is absolutely the same to me in which language an application is written. The results the application is producing are the important stuff. Do you Peter know if most of the new scientific programs (QC, MD/MM ..) are still written in fortran or is c slowly takin over? Do you know if any quantum chemistry program package is written in c (or any other language than fortran)? Do you have any benchmark results for any real problems where there exist an algorithm both in c and fortran, I would be very interested to see the results. So much about the tools! How about discussing applications now. What would be on top of your shopping list if you would be asked? What kind of software would you need most now? Are you happy with the graphics tools available or do you see the numbercrunching part more important? Cheers, -leif laaksonen