Scientific Object Oriented Programming Users Group Formed
December 2000
The ITL Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division has formed a
users group aimed at fostering the growth of expertise in scientific
object oriented programming at NIST. Object oriented programming
(OOP) provides structures and tools which allow programs to be more
easily extended, and their components more readily reused in other
applications. Such techniques are being increasingly applied in
scientific computing. The new Scientific Object Oriented Programming
Users Group (the ScOOP Group) provides a forum for NIST scientists to
discuss problems encountered and solutions achieved in the
application of OOP, to exchange code, and to learn about new
techniques. The group meets monthly and maintains an email list for
further discussion. Thus far, two informal seminars have been held,
one on the design of a project just getting underway, and another on
lessons learned in the initial versions of a more mature program. NIST
staff may join the ScOOP mailing list by sending e-mail listproc@nist.gov
with the line "subscribe scoop <yourname>" in the body of the message.
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