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Top-50 Reasons for SWMM5
The following top ten list was presented at
the International Conference on Stormwater and Urban Water Systems Modeling held
in Toronto on February 21, 2003.
Disclaimer: These reasons are based on the
responses provided by the members of the SWMM-USERS discussion group. I am simply passing them on without comment. This list has no technical or
educational value; it's intended for entertainment only; and it is not intended
to be offensive to anyone.
I received 50 entries. The top ten are listed below.
10. 13.6%
better than SWMM 4.4, or your money back.
9. What
the heck; I will try anything that’s for free.
8. It was inevitable that today's
"Viagra mentality" would spill over into the software industry and
give stormwater modelers everywhere a much more robust SWMM product.
7. Regulators
were starting to catch on with SWMM4’s strength to produce any desired result. Now we must re-confuse them.
6. Goodbye
DOS window - Hello blue screen of death!
5. It
keeps the old farts from understanding the code.
4. It’s
the new way to high-five: "Gimmee a SWMM5".
3. Because
"5" is an odd number, just like SWMM-Users.
2. The
only way to stop those darned philosophical quotes on your screen.
1. I
work for CDM. Do I have a
choice?
The remaining 40 reasons follow.
- "The SWMM 5" - sounds like a
50's group!!.
- It may be "SWMM 5", but it
doesn't quit working at 5 o'clock!
- Just Windows, baby!! (apologies to Al Davis).
- Gets great mileage!
- Love those SWMM 5 commercials where the
two girls fight in the pool, screaming "RUNS FASTER!" "MORE STABLE!"
- "Really, boss, the only training
seminar on the new version is in Hawaii..."
- Almost as good a Christmas gift for
engineers as the Clapper.
- "And away goes FORTRAN down the
drain"
- Good Grief! Aren't the first nine
reasons enough for you????
- Because "4" in Chinese sounds
like "death", and SWMM4 has had its share of causalities.
- Because it's "goin' to take you
higher"
- Discovery that the world does not
consist of "blocks" but is really made up of Links and Nodes.
- We need something that will run on our
Windows 95 machines.
- Truly Backwards Compatible! HA HA HA - Good One! Can you say job security?
- SWMM 4 was just too darned simplistic.
- It runs on PlayStation and xBox, right?
- You just type in the name of the city,
and SWMM 5 will find all the data on the web and create the dataset for
you!
- We just couldn't figure out how to stop
printing all those darned quotes, so we had to re-write the whole code!
- Sure beats the sound of "Windows
SWMM Version 2".
- SWMM5 is less buggy, and fewer bugs is
better than proven results.
- Lew is a good guy.
- SWMM5 users are one-up on SWMM4 users.
- It is newer, faster, simpler, easier,
and maybe as good.
- It's different, thank goodness.
- After EPA spends their money on SWMM5,
they would put virus in SWMM4 to force us to stop using it.
- The last one still using FORTRAN will be
put in a cave by 2005.
- No more Build-Up and Wash-Off Equations:
USEPA no longer allowed to mention pollution.
- If we don't support this version then it
will go the way of Windows SWMM!
- MTOM(Made to Order Modeling)...10,000
junctions and 20 pump stations.
5 year simulation at 5 second time intervals... No problem, coming right up!
- Nine calibrated single event RDII models
for a 15 mile interceptor with 20 cross connections... I'll be done before lunch!
- Now the boss can demand twice the work
in 0.001x the amount of time.
- Previous SWMM versions not buggy enough.
- "Nobody" codes in FORTRAN
anymore.
- Raelians told me to evolve to advanced
version or be left behind.
- Version 5 must be "1 better"
than version 4.
- Version "4.4hu" too hard to
spell.
- The first four SWMMs just didn't do it
for me.
- Finally gives me a sound basis for
complaining just how bad Windows SWMM (R.I.P. 1994) really was.
- Ran out of FORTRAN compilers large
enough to handle SWMM4.
- Lew is my buddy.
Thanks to all the contributors!
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