Here are a very few programs from the book _Numerical Recipes_,
by William H. Press et.al., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Quite some time ago I started a project to convert some programs to PL/I.
After converting the three random number programs and 'FMOMENT' I ran
out of time to work on it.  One problem was the lack of a suite of test
data and expected results to aid testing.

Rather than letting the work go to waste I decided to post them here.  
Eventually I hope to convert additional programs.  Meanwhile, here
is what has been done to date, with the usual disclaimer that they are
provided "as-is", wiith no support or guarantee.

As distributed, the package requires a couple of Gnu tools to build: 
Gnu make and 'touch'.
To build, type 'make'.  To run the test program type 'make test'.
These programs were compiled with IBM VisualAge PL/I for OS/2 1.1.
The DLLs required to run them can be found at 
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/misc/pli11dll.zip,
or they can probably be compiled using any newer IBM PL/I compiler.

The programs currently included are:

  RAN1 --+
  RAN2   +- Random number generators
  RAN3 --+
  FMOMENT - Moments of a distribution (FLOAT values)
  DOC     - Callable program to print version information
  TEST    - Test all supplied procedures

Complete documentation for the programs is the book itself.
The programs contain some information, and the test program
provides examples of how to call them.  Better documentation
may follow later.

Peter Flass <Peter_Flass@Yahoo.com>
July, 2006
