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From: alonzo@microsoft.UUCP (Alonzo Gariepy)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Looking for classes and algorithms for use in discrete event simulation
Message-ID: <8144@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 21 Oct 89 19:26:04 GMT
References: <1533@novavax.UUCP>
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <1533@novavax.UUCP> weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner) writes:
> I just reread the intro in Stroustrup's C++ reference manual and noticed
> that his published reason for initially creating "C with Classes" (which
> evolved into C++, was to do discrete event simulation.
> 
> I have a need to do work in this area also and feel OO techniques will
> be very helpful.  Any pointers to available source classes for discrete
> event simulation or object-based algorithms would be greatly
> appreciated.  (More specifically, we are modelling an RF communications
> system.)

Check out Part Three (Chapters 21 to 25) of "Smalltalk-80, The Language
and its Implementation" (the Blue Book), by Adele Goldberg and David
Robson.  The toughest part of oo programming is designing good protocols,
so you can get a head start by studying theirs.  

Alonzo Gariepy
alonzo@microsoft