Tonto

Tonto is a free computer package for doing theoretical chemistry calculations.

The name Tonto was suggested by Anthony Russell, and means "fool" in Spanish.

The main objective of Tonto is to be simple--simple to understand, simple to use, and most importantly, simple to hack. Although efficiency is important, it is not more important than simplicity, for Tonto.

Tonto is for people with new ideas, but who are fed up by the time it takes to understand and modify old monolithic quantum chemistry packages to do what they want.

Tonto is not against commercial packages such as Gaussian, Spartan, HyperChem, or ADF. Tonto is for the people who can't get these packages to do exactly what they want. Tonto is for the people who mainly write code. Theoretical chemistry is easy but some people like to pretend that it's hard.

Tonto is copyleft under the less restrictive GNU library licence.

Here is the documentation.

You can download Tonto from sourceforge.net.

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