NBS Minimal BASIC Test Programs: Version 2, User's Manual, Issue 500, Part 1 - Issue 570, Part 1U.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 a 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 a 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 continue . The standard , however , allows implementations to terminate execution after even a non - fatal exception " if restrictions imposed by the hardware or operating environment make it impossible to follow ...
... machine infinity , and continue . The standard , however , allows implementations to terminate execution after even a non - fatal exception " if restrictions imposed by the hardware or operating environment make it impossible to follow ...
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... machine infinity is exceeded and they all call 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 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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72 characters 8.4 PROGRAM NUMBER algorithm allowed ANSI ANSI standard argument assignment BASIC Test Programs behavior Computer Science context Control Statements correctly DEF statement division by zero documentation endif error measure error programs ERROR REFS error tests EVALUATION OF NUMERIC Exception Handling EXCEPTION REFS exception report exception tests execution FOR-BLOCKS FOR-STATEMENT functional group GOSUB and RETURN GOTO Implementation Conformance implementation-defined features Informative Tests INPUT exception input-reply internal interpretation keyword language standard LINE-NUMBERS machine infinity Minimal BASIC Test non-fatal exceptions NUMERIC CONSTANTS NUMERIC EXPRESSIONS ON-GOTO operations OPTION BASE pass/fail message passes or fails PBASIC PRINT processor FAILS PROGRAM NUMBER EXCEPTION program output programming language programs test pseudorandom QUOTED STRINGS CONTAINING recovery procedure reply requirements RND FUNCTION rules Science and Technology self-checking semantic significand simple software testing source code specified Standard Capabilities standard program syntax test fails TEST PASSED test system UNDERFLOW USER-DEFINED FUNCTION Version ZERO