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6. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION (If joint or other than NBS, see instructions)

NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20234

9. SPONSORING ORGANIZATION NAME AND COMPLETE ADDRESS (Street, City, State, ZIP)

7. Contract/Grant No.

8. Type of Report & Period Covered Final

Same as item 6.

10. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 80-600163

Document describes a computer program; SF-185, FIPS Software Summary, is attached.

11. ABSTRACT (A 200-word or less factual summary of most significant information. If document includes a significant bibliography or literature survey, mention it here)

This publication describes the set of programs developed by NBS for the purpose of testing conformance of implementations of the computer language BASIC to the American National Standard for Minimal BASIC, ANSI X3.60-1978. The Department of Commerce has adopted this ANSI standard as Federal Information Processing Standard 68. By submitting the programs to a candidate implementation, the user can test the various features which an implementation must support in order to conform to the standard. While some programs can determine whether or not a given feature is correctly implemented, others produce output which the user must then interpret to some degree. This manual describes how the programs should be used so as to interpret correctly the results of the tests. Such interpretation depends strongly on a solid understanding of the conformance rules laid down in the standard, and there is a brief discussion of these rules and how they relate to the test programs and to the various ways in which the language may be implemented.

12. KEY WORDS (Six to twelve entries; alphabetical order; capitalize only proper names; and separate key words by semicolons) Basic; language processor testing; minimal basic; programming language standards; software standards; software testing

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Order From Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC
20402.

15. Price

Order From National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Springfield, VA. 22161

$4.00

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE:

1980-331-021/6715

USCOMM-DC 6043-P80

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Computer Science
and Technology

NBS Special Publication 500-70/2

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NBS Minimal BASIC Test
Programs-Version 2,
User's Manual

Volume 2-Source Listings
and Sample Output

THE UNIVERSITY
OF MICHIGAN

DEC 0% 1980

ENGINEERING
LIBRARY

The University

of Michigan
Engineering
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