[mesa-users] words of wisdom from Mick Jagger and Keith Richards about using mesa

Warrick Ball wball at astro.physik.uni-goettingen.de
Wed Apr 20 01:03:14 EDT 2016


Forget Jagger/Richards, I think Bill's line is how I will henceforth 
describe all stellar modelling!

MESA isn't unique in this.  But at least it's open source, free of COMMON 
blocks, and the variable names are longer than 8 characters.

W

On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, Bill Paxton wrote:

> No, you can't always get what you want
> You can't always get what you want
> You can't always get what you want
> But if you try sometimes you find
> You get what you need
>
> Jagger/Richards, 1968
>
> initial optimism and eventual disillusion, followed by resigned pragmatism
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> applies to love, politics, and using mesa.
>
> cheers,
> Bill
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Warrick Ball
Postdoc, Institut für Astrophysik Göttingen
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