Abstract
This paper is an introduction to SIMULA, a programming language designed to provide a systems analyst with unified concepts which facilitate the concise description of discrete event systems. A system description also serves as a source language simulation program. SIMULA is an extension of ALGOL 60 in which the most important new concept is that of quasi-parallel processing.
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SimulaComputer scienceProgramming languageExtension (predicate logic)Simulation languageDiscrete event simulationSimulation
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- 1966
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- article
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 671-678
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- 855
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Ole-Johan Dahl,
Kristen Nygaard
(1966).
SIMULA: an ALGOL-based simulation language.
Communications of the ACM
, 9
(9)
, 671-678.
https://doi.org/10.1145/365813.365819
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- DOI
- 10.1145/365813.365819