| Terence 2006-10-30, 7:15 pm |
| Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj wrote:
> Then are you against execution time assembling of FORMAT statements
> as well? OR even reading in FORMAT statements as was a common
> technique in the BMD and other statistical package programs?
Spaniawe!
Not only do I recognise and remember that fact about the BMD (UCLA)
statistical package source code (not the later parameteric version) ,
but I have been searching for years to recover the BMD source code I
lost when a tape becaame unreadable.
Do you by any chance have this code or part of it?
Even Stanford University library didn't have it!
BMD also had an elegant way of carving up available memory into the
matrix shapes it needed, before calling perfectly transparent
general-purpose subroutine code to solve the problem (eg. eigenvectors
and eigenvalue calculations, confidence measurements)..
I still have one single source module I was working on at the time of
full loss.
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