.. title: Intro
.. slug: rainer-bruggeman
.. date: 2011-12-31
.. tags: interview
.. category: PyHasse
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Interview with Rainer Bruggemann
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:Q:  *We have been working together the PyHasse project since 2011,
    do you remember?*
    
:A: Yes, we met the first time at the PyCon-conference in Leipzig, 2011.

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:Q: *I was interested in your software, what was your motivation for 
    developing PyHasse?*

:A: As usual, I wanted to reproduce the results of a scientific paper
    by hand. Then it turns out that the calculations were too tedious,
    to be performed manually. I wrote a small program, using
    the language Python. Python was recommended to me by a scientific
    colleague and friend. One of these little programs was the starting
    point for PyHasse.
   
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:Q: *Who else is using PyHasse?*
:A: That's a difficult question. In the last years I sent a CD with the
    PyHasse-code to many scientists. However, as usual, most of them
    give no feedback. Active users today, so far I know, are around
    10 groups in various parts of the world.

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:Q: *The name "PyHasse" obviously indicates that it is a Python-based
    program. Why  Python?*
:A: As I explained, Python was recommended to me by a scientific colleague
    and friend back in 2003. It appeared to be fairly easy to work with, so
    since then I have been using Python for many scientific and
    personal purposes. As part of my mathematical education I learnt ALGOL,
    later I had to program using FORTRAN, then BASIC (dialects).
    In comparison with these three languages, I prefer Python.

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:Q: *In the PyHasse software you are using Tkinter (Tcl/TK) to get fast
    input and output. Now we are working on a web based version.
    How will the web based version be different from the stand-alone version
    that has been available so far?* 
:A: The web based version is more flexible. Tkinter is easy to be programed,
    and as such ideal for me. However, apparently it is not adaptable for
    web-sites.

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:Q: *If I am interested in PyHasse, how can I get the software?*
:A: Up to now, you can to contact me. Then I will prepare a CD that I will
    send to you by ordinary mail. One main reason for working on an
    Internet version is that this time-consuming procedure can be
    avoided.  A further reason for the web based version is that due
    to my experience people using PyHasse will typically apply only
    few central modules of the package. These will be available in the
    web version that in the future will be visible and available for a
    larger circle of interested scientists.  For a scientist that
    still want to use the more sophisticated modules PyHasse will
    still be available through the old procedure, but I foresee that
    only few people will use that possibility.
    
    
:Q: *If I have an idea or suggestion or question, where can I get help?*
:A: Simply by contacting me! Perhaps I already have a solution or can find
    one by minor additional programming. If not, the partial order community
    may help. If still no help is available, I could recommend you to visit
    our conferences where the community meets every second year for a
    couple of days. This year the conference will be held in Florence,
    Italy, 9th  and 10th  April 2015.

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      title="Introduction">About Rainer Bruggeman</a> |
   <a href="/pages/interview/helmut-hasse"
      title="Helmut Hasse">About Helmut Hasse</a> |
   <a title="Project PyHasse"
      href="/pages/interview/pyhasse">About PyHasse</a> |
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