Paolo wrote:
>since I was present at the (by now infamous) ILL workshop...
As local organiser of the workshop, I thought it went rather well :-)
I certainly enjoyed all the talks, especially those of Lachlan, Bill,
Paolo, Juan and other Rietveld list speakers - though I thought
Paolo's suggestion that we build a TOF machine on our high
flux reactor went a bit far :-) as did another ISIS scientist when
he suggested we should plot against Q rather than 2-theta !
>Beside CCSL, which was obviously at the centre of the controversy...
For the younger ones here, CCSL stands for Cambridge
Crystallography Subroutine Library, and was written by Jane
Brown, who has been an ILL scientist for almost 25 years, together
with Judy Matthewman. It was successfully adapted for TOF
diffraction by Bill David et al., and I doubt that it can be called
'controversial'.
If there is a 'controversy' it is about making software freely
available, which is the key to the success of GSAS and FullProf,
both distributed as compiled code. And of course both owe much
to the original Rietveld code - which was also freely available -
as source code.
Alan Hewat, ILL Grenoble, FRANCE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tel (33) 4.76.20.72.13
ftp://ftp.ill.fr/pub/dif fax (33) 4.76.48.39.06 http://www.ill.fr/dif/
