SIMSCRIPT

Simulation language

Instance of: simulation language
Founded: 1962

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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 and was designed for large discrete event simulations. It influenced Simula.

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Founded by: Harry Markowitz
Designed by: CACI
Operating system: Windows 7
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Latest version: Release 5.0 released: 2019 · version type: stable version
Release 4.0 released: 2009 · version type: stable version

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