Not surprisingly, the greatest deficiencies involve functions of complex variables. The paper also discussed the need for improved testing and suggested a graphics-based approach that could in principle be offered on the World Wide Web. The work grew out of an earlier survey of current resources for numerical evaluation of special functions which culminated in a lengthy paper in the American Mathematical Society's Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics. Currently, work is in progress to prepare the survey paper mentioned above in hypertext format for presentation on the Web. Because of its extensive classification and bibliography of special functions, it will be a valuable resource for scientific workers.
Future plans call for updating the bibliographic database on a regular basis.