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SIMSCRIPT II is a new computer programming language designed and implemented at The RAND Corporation1. It has been modeled after SIMSCRIPT2, the simulation programming language introduced by RAND in 1963, but goes far beyond the design goals of that language. The design goals of SIMSCRIPT II were stated in3; briefly, they were to produce a readable, user-oriented language strongly oriented to the efficient debugging and running of large simulation models. In addition, the implementation was to be as computer independent as possible. As it is difficult in a short abstract to describe a complex language adequately, the following strategy has been adopted. Section 1 describes the basic properties of the SIMSCRIPT II language in concise, but hopefully communicative, terms. Section 2 illustrates the language through excerpts taken from a job shop simulation model. Section 3 discusses the present status of the language, its implementation and its use.