The NIST DMIS interpreter, version 2
Thomas R. Kramer, Frederick M. Proctor, William G. Rippey, Harry A. Scott · 1998
DMIS Interpreter Version 2In mid-1997, research work at NIST developed the requirement that the DMIS interpreter be able to handle a series of small, related inspection programs.The DMIS language provides the capability to pass information from one program to a program run later.The capability is enabled by the existence of common variables in DMIS, but common variables had not been implemented in the first version of the interpreter.It was decided, therefore, to implement common variables.Study of how to do this indicated that a major revision would be required.It was decided to build Version 2 of the interpreter, and Version 2 was built during the middle of 1997.This report documents Version 2. Changes from the first version to Version 2 are discussed in Section 2.6, Appendix A.1.1,Appendix F.2.1, and Appendix F.3.1 of this report. Overview of the DMIS LanguageThis section gives an overview of the DMIS language.Further details of the meaning of DMIS code are given in Section 3 of this report.1.By "DMISMN statement" we mean a statement using the major word DMISMN.In general, "XYZ statement" means a statement whose major word is XYZ.