SIMULA: an ALGOL-based simulation language

  • Authors:
  • Ole-Johan Dahl;Kristen Nygaard

  • Affiliations:
  • Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo, Norway;Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo, Norway

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1966

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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.