Simulation data structures using SIMULA 67

ABSTRACT

This paper describes the approach to the teaching of simulation at the University of Montreal. The language used is the present standard of SIMULA, sometimes referred to as SIMULA 67; however, the modelling approach is inspired from GPSS. This combination of an old and a new language has proved very fruitful. Little has so far been published on the new standard for SIMULA and it is hoped that the examples in this paper may serve as a painless introduction to simulation programming in this language.

REFERENCES

• 1: Ole-Johan Dahl , BJørn Myhrhaug , Kristen Nygaard, Some features of the SIMULA 67 language, Proceedings of the second conference on Applications of simulations, p.29-31, December 02-04, 1968, New York, New York, United States
• 2: Ole-Johan Dahl , Kristen Nygaard, SIMULA: an ALGOL-based simulation language, Communications of the ACM, v.9 n.9, p.671-678, Sept. 1966 [doi>10.1145/365813.365819]
• 3: Ole-Johan Dahl, SIMULA 67 common base language, (Norwegian Computing Center. Publication), 1968
• 4: I.B.M., "General Purpose Simulation System/360, User's manual", I.B.M. Publication H20-0326, 1968.
• 5: E.W. Dijkstra, "Co-operating Sequential Processes", in "Programming Languages", Genuys (Ed.), Academic Press, 1968.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.6 SIMULATION AND MODELING
      I.6.2 Simulation Languages

Additional Classification:
  E. Data
  E.1 DATA STRUCTURES

General Terms:
Languages