Nirvana Support Evaluation

Source Code

131,870 lines of C code (excluding NEdit)

2,254 lines of FORTRAN code (interfaces with CERN's HBOOK)

Code fairly well documented

Code written modularly

Significant amount of code reused (utility modules, plot widgets)

Nirvana group coding standards

High standards of code quality and testing before release

Purify used to minimize memory utilization errors

Maintainers should be familiar with C, Unix, X11, & Motif

These may have large learning curve for new programmers

Also data passing mechanisms between C & FORTRAN