Who is TONTO for?

TONTO is intended mainly for computational chemists with new ideas, but who are discouraged by the time it might take to understand and modify old, monolithic programs to do what they want.

TONTO provides many useful modules covering all of the basic needs in the field of quantum chemistry, including interfaces to the data archives of other programs; and because it has excellent documentation, TONTO is a very attractive starting point for the implementation of new algorithms and interdisciplinary projects in computational chemistry.

In short, you don't have to reinvent the wheel to program in TONTO.

However, although TONTO is for the people who mainly write code, it is still very easy to use for the novice.