Toolpack programming environment. [Data flow processing]
Wayne R. Cowell, L. J. Osterweil · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1983
Toolpack is a portable programming and program maintenance environment, now under development, that incorporates a collection of FORTRAN-oriented software tools, operating on subject programs and documentation contained in a file system. The high-level tools, such as a data-flow analyzer, are composed of interdependent tool fragments that take input from and place output in the file system. A user specifies the application of the tools in the Toolpack command language, which is best thought of as a language for manipulating and managing objects related to software development and maintenance. In this paper we view the following features of Toolpack from a user's perspective: (1) the programming environment, (2) the FORTRAN-oriented tools, (3) the addition of tools to the environment. We also present a brief view of some of the technical aspects of Toolpack.