30.1 The Structure of CONGEN

CONGEN has a very simple organization. The main program is primarily a command dispatcher. It reads each command from the input file, parses the first word which is a command verb, and executes code to parse the remainder of the command and then perform its function. Data storage is simple in principle — there are several dozen COMMON blocks which store information about the system being modeled, and the commands normally act to use or modify these COMMON blocks. Thus, many of the subroutines are independent of each other since they only depend on the data in the COMMON blocks.

Within CONGEN, there are also a large number of subroutines and functions that provide a convenient programming environment. For example, there are string manipulation routines, array manipulation routines, storage management capabilities, and operating system interfaces. Most of these routines are found in the source files; string.flx, array.flx, util.flx, cutil.flx, and cgutil.flx; and others can be found scattered throughout the program. The programming tool, autodoc, see Tools, can be used to list the comments from the subprograms within FLECS files.