NBS Minimal BASIC Test Programs: Version 2, User's Manual, Volume 13U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, 1980 |
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... machine efficiency . In July 1973 , NBS published a " Candidate Standard for Fundamental BASIC " [ 2 ] by Prof. John A. N. Lee of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst . This work represented the beginning of serious effort to ...
... machine efficiency . In July 1973 , NBS published a " Candidate Standard for Fundamental BASIC " [ 2 ] by Prof. John A. N. Lee of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst . This work represented the beginning of serious effort to ...
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... machine - based software tools and techniques , the increase in programmer productivity which an industry - wide standard fosters , and so on . At bottom , however , there is one result essential to the success of a standard : program ...
... machine - based software tools and techniques , the increase in programmer productivity which an industry - wide standard fosters , and so on . At bottom , however , there is one result essential to the success of a standard : program ...
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... machine - readable part of the test system consists only of source code , i.e. , there are no system control commands . It is your responsibility to submit the programs to the implementation in natural way which does not violate the ...
... machine - readable part of the test system consists only of source code , i.e. , there are no system control commands . It is your responsibility to submit the programs to the implementation in natural way which does not violate the ...
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... machine infinity , and The standard , however , implementations to terminate execution after even a non - fatal exception " if restrictions imposed by the hardware or operating environment make it impossible to follow the given ...
... machine infinity , and The standard , however , implementations to terminate execution after even a non - fatal exception " if restrictions imposed by the hardware or operating environment make it impossible to follow the given ...
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... machine infinity is exceeded and they all call for implementation to supply machine infinity as the result and continue execution . The tests ensure that machine infinity is at least as great as the guaranteed minimum of 1E38 , but since ...
... machine infinity is exceeded and they all call for implementation to supply machine infinity as the result and continue execution . The tests ensure that machine infinity is at least as great as the guaranteed minimum of 1E38 , but since ...
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8.4 PROGRAM NUMBER algorithm allows ANSI BASIC ANSI standard argument assignment Backus-Naur Form BASIC Test Programs behavior computer languages correctly decimal digits defined division by zero error programs ERROR REFS error tests Exception Handling exception report exception tests execution FOR-blocks FOR-STATEMENT FORTRAN functional group GOTO handling implementation accepts IMPLEMENTATION CONFORMANCE implementation of BASIC implementation-defined features informative tests input-reply interpretation language standard line number machine infinity measure Minimal BASIC Test non-fatal exceptions non-standard construction non-standard programs Note NUMERIC CONSTANTS NUMERIC EXPRESSIONS ON-GOTO operations OPTION BASE pass/fail message PASSES else processor passing or failing PBASIC processor FAILS processor PASSES program conformance program is standard program output programming language recovery procedure reject REM statement requirements RND FUNCTION rules sample output self-checking semantic meaning significand simple source code specified Standard Capabilities standard program syntax test fails TEST PASSED test sequence test system UNDERFLOW University of Kent USER-DEFINED FUNCTION Version zeros