PyNSol: objects as scaffolding

, that palm trees are much more common there than in places with severe winters. I conclude that severe winters are the result of inadequate attention to modern civic planning: places that are too cold simply haven't planted enough palm trees. Cold places, obviously, can dramatically reduce their snow-removal budgets by planting more palm trees. So far, my efforts to convince the cities of Chicago, Madison, Mon-treal and Ottawa, which I have called home at various times, to use these proven contemporary methods of climate enhancement have been rejected. This stubborn attachment to obsolete horticultural practice continues to interfere with the quality of life in these otherwise wonderful cities. No, of course I'm not serious. Consider, though, the possibility that the use of object-oriented programming in high-performance scientific software is sometimes the result of this same sort of thinking. Richard Feynmann called this " cargo cult " science