Handbook of Mathematical Functions, With Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables,
Handbook of Mathematical Functions, With Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables,
Provision of user services in a network environment
ACM SIGUCCS Newsletter
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Most computer installations maintain a subroutine library to supplement and support the efforts of their users. Over the years, these "software inventories" have grown in size and complexity. For example, at the Academic Computing Services Facility at Stanford (one of several computer installations here), there are over 1100 programs which are supported to some degree. These programs represent a very substantial investment in both manpower and dollars, and it becomes increasingly obvious that some sort of organization of them is needed. The situation is analagous to that of a library of books, but more difficult, since in the latter the primary object is the book, but in the former one has several primary entities: the code in source form, in object and load module forms, and perhaps several types of documents also.