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Date:	Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:12:54 PDT
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com
To:	scoug-sundialsig@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-SundialSIG: I looked around.

In <0GCK00ELA5HM6F@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net>, on 04/29/01
at 07:28 AM, "Lynn H. Maxson" said:

>I normally follow the concept of "Give a man a fish and satisfy his
>hunger for a day. Teach a man to fish and satisfy his hunger for a
>lifetime". To me that often means, as Steven has correctly alluded, to

This I definitely agree with. I just tend to approach it differently. I
tend to start with examples which I believe the individual can relate to
and then via induction show how this relates to the theory. Like they say
in the movie: "small steps". I find this tends to avoid some of the
glassy-eyed looks.

>I agree with Mark Henigan (driven zen) that the MESA terminology ought
>not to have more names (references) than they have things (referents).
>I thought the first might be to refer in MESA talk to "formulas" instead
>of "equations".

While there is a difference, I believe most of the audience uses them
interchangably, without confusion. Just to see how Mesa does it, the help
only has 3 references to equations and IMO only one should be changed to
formula.

>collection, possibly interconnected, of one or more spreadsheets. Thus
>I do not understand the thinking behind the file=workbook=spreadsheet
>references.

You might be surprised how many folks only do single layer worksheets. :-)

>cross-section (columnrow:columnrow), and layer ([layer]columnrow). I'm
>not smart enough at the moment to know if [layer]columnrow:columnrow,
>i.e. referencing a cross-section in a different layer, is possible. If
>it is, perhaps someone in the know can provide an example.

You can do it, but it's not intuitive:

[a]a1..b3,[b]a1..b3

Mesa has some 3D features. However, I would not call them a complete set.
For example, there's no way that I know of to apply actions to a set of
layers in parallel.

Steven

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