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Astrophysics Source Code Library

Astrophysics Source Code Library

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·September 12, 2025
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MarkusQ

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"Code" and "data" are mass nouns, and have been for decades. You don't say "pass the salts", and you shouldn't say "the codes are" or "the data are" either.

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That said, I love how open the astronomy community is with their code and data. I wish other fields would follow their lead, but given the incentive structure, they probably won't.

reactordev

I love astrophysics but this site is excruciating difficult to search unless you know exactly what you’re looking for. No groupings or tagging, categories, or anything to help you find similar “codes” to an area of interest.

aragilar

The point of ASCL is around providing a citable reference to the code, independent of the various places it could appear, with minimal effort from researchers. Given it's indexed by NASA ADS, there doesn't seem to be much value in duplicating effort around search, especially when people will go to NASA ADS first anyway.