SIMSCRIPT is a free-form, English-like general-purpose simulation language conceived by Harry Markowitz and Bernard Hausner at the RAND Corporation in 1962. It was implemented as a Fortran preprocessor on the IBM 7090[1][2] and was designed for large discrete event simulations. It influenced Simula.[3]
Though earlier versions were released into the public domain, SIMSCRIPT was commercialized by Markowitz's company, California Analysis Center, Inc. (CACI), which produced proprietary versions SIMSCRIPT I.5[4][5] and SIMSCRIPT II.5.
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SIMSCRIPT … was implemented as a Fortran preprocessor on the IBM 7090
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- ^ Kristen Nygaard (1978). "The Development of the SIMULA Languages" (PDF).
The development of … SIMULA I and SIMULA 67 … were influenced by the design of SIMSCRIPT …
- ^ M. E. Kuhl. "The SIMSCRIPT III Programming Language for Modular Object …" (PDF).
… and was followed by SIMSCRIPT I.5 from CACI in 1965
- ^ "A Look Back in Time: The CACI Story".