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Coding Standards Finally Appear

Steve Easterbrook has provided a list of coding standards that are associated with some of the climate models. The first one is for the NASA / GISS ModelE model and code.

Professor Easterbrook states,

Two followup tasks I hope to get to soon – (1) analyze how much these different standards overlap/differ, and (2) measure how much the model codes adhere to the standards.

Here are a few leads relative to Task (2):

A GISS ModelE code fragment

Coding Guidelines and Inline Documentation

Another NASA/GISS ModelE Code Fragment

an extra thousand coe checkers

Pattern Matching in NASA/GISS ModelE Coding

Yet Even More NASA/GISS ModelE Coding

The first of these posts was written almost four years ago. The date on the NASA / GISS ModelE document is February 2010. I’m not hopeful that Better late than never will work out in this case. It’s very difficult to retro-fit coding standards to code that is several decades old.

November 8, 2010 Posted by Dan Hughes | Uncategorized | Code Documentation, Code Verification, Coding standards, GCMs, GISS ModelE, GISS ModelE Coding | 4 Comments