SIMCAL: the merger of Simula and Pascal

  • Authors:
  • Brian Malloy;Mary Lou Soffa

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA;Computer Science Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • WSC '86 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Winter simulation
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

Simulation languages, although expressively powerful, usually require a large overhead to learn. In addition, compilers for the languages may be unavailable for a particular computer or may be too expensive. In this work, we develop a process-oriented simulation language, Simcal, based on standard Pascal and extended to directly incorporate the simulation primitives found in Simula. We show that the implementation of Simcal only requires a standard Pascal compiler. The combination of Pascal and Simula provides the simulation modeler with a readily accessible, powerful language for writing simulation programs. The language is currently implemented on a micro computer using a Pascal preprocessor.