The PORT Mathematical Subroutine Library
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)
A system for typesetting mathematics
Communications of the ACM
Environment Parameters and Basic Functions for Floating-Point Computation
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)
Language design and analyzability: a retrospective
Software—Practice & Experience
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The UNIX operating system [1] supports a number of software tools which, when viewed as a whole, are an unusually powerful aid to programming. The design, implementation, documentation and maintenance of a portable FORTRAN test of the floating-point arithmetic unit of a computer is used to illustrate these tools at work. The result of this effort was a program created automatically from the paper describing the test. Thus, only the documentation had to be written; the program was automatically produced from it. Also, changes in the document (debugging) were automatically reflected in the program. The second section briefly describes the UNIX tools to be used. The third section outlines the basic problem and the fourth section shows how the tools can help solve the problem.