The Simple Software Tools package (SST) is a package of applications designed to help with the production of software and documentation, with particular emphasis on ADAM programming using Fortran 77.
As its name suggests, SST is intended for performing fairly simple manipulation of software, but it aims to tackle some of the commonly encountered problems which are not catered for in more sophisticated commercial software tools (such as FORCHECK and VAXset) which are available on Starlink. In future, SST may also duplicate a few of the simpler facilities which commercial products offer in order to avoid the cost (and generally much higher overheads, such as disk space) which prevent the commercial products being freely available on all Starlink machines.
This document describes the first version of the SST package, whose main initial purpose is to provide tools to extract information from subroutine “prologues” and to format this information in a variety of ways to produce different forms of user documentation. A simple source-code and comment statistics tool is also included.