• F. Schmidt
  CERN, Geneva

After a intense and hectic code development during the LHC design phase the MAD-X program (Methodical Accelerator Design – Version X) is going through a period of code consolidation. To this end the development on the core has been frozen and most effort are concerned with a solid debugging in view of a trustworthy production version for the LHC commissioning. On the other hand, the demand on further code development from the LHC pre-accelerators and CLIC are dealt with PTC related parts of the code where the implementation is in full swing. Having reached a mature state of the code the question arises what kind of future can be envisaged for MAD-X.