🚀 go-pugleaf

Blargh.  I just cancelled my previous article that was asking for NR C
code. 

After receiving some mail from a few people (thank you) and reading
the introduction to NR in C, I see that they have a ridiculous copyright
policy, authorizing the buyer to make one (1) machine readable copy of
the code.

This is really absurd -- taken literally, as all legal things have to
be, it means that I am not allowed to, say, compile any of their code
with VAX C with the /LIST specifier set.  Nor am I allowed keep my
source in more than one place -- backups, anyone?   What if I have a
scanner and some text recognition code? 

Sigh.  Put me down as one disgruntled physicist who will ignore the
copyright notice at least to some extent.  The system I work on
automatically makes backups of my volume -- I'm not going to ask that
they exclude one particular directory.

Anyway, I withdraw my request.  And if anybody's working on a GNU
implementation of the Numerical Recipes algorithms, let me know.  I'll
help.  Shouldn't be too difficult, especially since NR acknowledges
having taken the algorithms from other sources (for example,
Bevington: which includes source code in FORTRAN).
--
Todd Masco           | tm2b@andrew.cmu.edu | "Dinosaurs aren't dangerous.
CMU Physics (Senior) | tm2b@andrew.BITNet  |  Gamma rays are." - D Thomas