COMPUTER SIMULATION PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: PERSPECTIVE AND PROGNOSIS,

Abstract

Simulation programming languages have been going through rapid evolutionary changes. Before 1959 there were no simulation languages--there were only simulation programs. Since 1959, when the first programming languages designed especially for simulation appeared, many different simulation modeling and programming systems have been proposed. At least five unequally different modeling schemes have found widespread acceptance and use. A large amount of modeling and programming experience has been accumulated which simulation language designers are now taking full advantage of. In this paper we first discuss some theories of simulation modeling and programming. We then describe the design aims and a few of the language facilities of several 'second generation' simulation programming languages. Finally, we comment on a probable future for simulation languages and simulation programming.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0659358

Entities

People

  • Philip J. Kiviat

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Formal Languages
  • Language
  • Programming Languages
  • Simulation Languages
  • Simulations
  • Simulators

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Educational Psychology