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SIMULA: an ALGOL-based simulation language

Ole-Johan Dahl, Kristen Nygaard

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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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Key concepts: Simula, Computer science, Programming language, Extension (predicate logic), Simulation language, Discrete event simulation, Simulation