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Scientific software for performing large computations is typically managed
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using textual control files that specify the parameters of the computation.
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Historically, these control files have typically consisted of long,
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inflexible collections of numbers whose meaning and format is hard-coded
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into the program. With libctl, we make it easy for programmers to support
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a greatly superior control file structure, and with less effort than was
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required for traditional input formats.
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The "ctl" in "libctl" stands for Control Language (by convention, libctl
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control files end with ".ctl" and are referred to as ctl files). Thus,
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libctl is the Control Language Library (where the "lib" prefix follows the
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Unix idiom).
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WWW: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/libctl/
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