**CIGAL Reference Manual, Chapter 1 (Topics): philosophy**
===== Philosophy -- CIGAL design =====
The basic philosophy embedded within CIGAL is flexibility:
  * data variables can be accessed directly from any memory storage device
  * data items can be a wide range of data types
  * data variables can be of any size
  * all or part of any variable can be used for almost any operation
  * if hardware isn't available for an operation, software emulates it
  * if a predefined command isn't available for an operation, write a macro

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