Talk:Valence bond codes

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I have tried to be even-handed here, but I am the author of one of these programs. I am also not familiar with all of them and therefore can not summarise their capabilities. Please modify it to make it more even-handed. Have I missed any? Bduke 02:57, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Hmm...I think the article should be moved to a different title. The first time I came across it, I thought "VB" stood for "Visual Basic", where here, it is "Valence Bond". Would it be a good idea to move this to a more general title such as "List of programs used in computational chemistry" instead? --HappyCamper 00:51, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

The only link to this page is from the Modern valence bond theory page, so I did not think the name was confusing. However, I will try to move it to "Valence bond programs". There is already a table of computational chemistry programs in Computational chemistry#Software packages, but these are the big ab initio and semi-empirical codes, and the columns do not really apply to VB codes. I do not think it is helpfull at this stage to add the VB codes to that table and give them each a separate page, particularly as that will lose the information about VB in the GAMESS(US) and GAMESS(UK) codes. Bduke 02:47, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Ah, okay, that makes sense! Thanks. --HappyCamper 03:07, 3 January 2006 (UTC)