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Goals

There are three main goals that motivate the development of this tool set:

It must be noted that our goal here is not to replace existing tools that already provide useful functionality for computational experiments (e.g., gnuplot, make, perl, python). Rather, the goal is to augment this set with new tools that build on the functionality already available to provide a comfortable experimentation environment.



Tobias Polzin 2003-05-30