<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>On 13 Mar 2008, at 20:28, Axel wrote:</div><div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">it is hard to let go of something that has been</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">around for a very long time. after having slept over</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">the choices, i'd rather go with a change in the documentation,</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">i.e. keep TEMP_TOL 'as is' and add two remarks stating that this</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">is global only and that regional recaling should use CSVR with</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">short tau instead.</font></p> </blockquote></div><br></div><div>Where does evolution and innovation fits in your remark?</div><div>I honestly don't agree with your point.. habits can be (and must be) changed and adapted to</div><div>something different (possibly better). </div><div>Due to the continuous computational challenges and growth in algorithmic developments, all codes have necessarily </div><div>to evolve into a direction where the organization of the code itself has to be revisited, restructured and improved (even when a structure was planned since the very beginning).</div><div>The price for not doing that is just an incredible amount of time lost in code-maintenance and an incredible increase of the difficulties in expanding the code capabilities.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>You touched the real problem. People fight because you move/delete/reorganize keywords.. they just see that this creates them the waste of (maybe) 5 minutes in order to update their mental scheme. They don't see the necessity of these reorganization, They don't see the time you spent </div><div>when you've to modify the code. They want just to find the same keywords (used maybe the last time in the 80s) at the same place.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I wonder: for someone that consider him/herself a scientist shouldn't a flexible mind be the key to do research?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The controversial is purely philosophical (don't take me too serious). Of course you can change the documentation (I won't do that ;-) ).</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Teo</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>