By Ole-Johan Dahl, Kristen Nygaard
Communications of the ACM,
September 1966,
Vol. 9 No. 9, Pages 671-678
10.1145/365813.365819
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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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