The control program is typically a scripting language, and can be quickly altered to meet the particular requirments at hand.
Since Sofa consists of separate programs, the complexity of each program is reduced, and the reliability level should be higher.
The current testing regime has shown the software to be 32 and 64 bit clean. It compiles and runs fine on Suse 10, Redhat 9, and Fedora Core 1. We expect it to compile and run correctly on windows.
Individual components have been extensively leak tested, and shown to be correct.
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