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From: mip@IDA.LiU.SE (Mikael Patel)
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Subject: Re: discrete-event simulation in C++
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Date: 22 Aug 90 17:13:19 GMT
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Discrete event simulation should be done in SIMULA, the grandfather of
object-oriented programming languages. What you need is classes and
COROUTINES to make life easy for you! C++ has only classes. Try looking
at DEMOS. Its a nice simulation package written in Simula-67 that is very
easy to use and generates all the statistics you need without you
having to implement random functions, histograms, etc. There is a text
book; G.M. Birtwistle, Discrete Event Modelling on Simula, Macmillan, 
1979, ISBN 0-333-23881-8. Simula compilers for most modern machines
(workstations, pc, macintosh, etc) are available.


Mikael R.K. Patel
Researcher and Lecturer
Computer Aided Design Laboratory (CADLAB)
Department of Computer and Information Science
Linkoping University, S-581 83  LINKOPING, SWEDEN

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