On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Stuart MacGregor wrote:
[snip]
> Could we move from socialist central designs to a more flexible
> heterogeneous (and redundant) free for all - small pieces of algorithm,
> with code in several languages and test data and a theory document, and
> clear descriptions of where it is suitable and not suitable, where it
> fails, error analysis, flop count formulae etc. This sort of thing
> would be of use to me, but I suppose it would be difficult to make money
> out of it.
Are you familiar with the paper
Bruce W. Weide, William F. Ogden, Murali Sitaraman
Recasting algorithms to encourage reuse
IEEE Software
Sep 1994 11(5):80-88
It discusses part of what you want.
--Stu Anderson
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