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A methodology for the development of transportable numerical software, has been described. It is evident that the production of high quality numerical software is not an exact science but a branch of software engineering which must take account of the vagaries of a real and changing world. The approach which serves us well now will not necessarily continue to do so.
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Ford, B. (1982). Transportable Numerical Software. In: Messina, P.C., Murli, A. (eds) Problems and Methodologies in Mathematical Software Production. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 142. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-11603-6_6
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