A computer simulation language is used to describe the operation of a simulation on a computer. There are two major types of simulation: continuous and discrete event though more modern languages can handle more complex combinations. Most languages also have a graphical interface and at least a simple statistic gathering capability for the analysis of the results. An important part of discrete-event languages is the ability to generate pseudo-random numbers and variants from different probability distributions.
See also
- Discrete event simulation
- List of computer simulation software
- List of HDL simulators: simulators whose model is specified using a hardware description language
References
Dahl, Ole-Johan, and Kristen Nygaard. "SIMULA: an ALGOL-based simulation language." Communications of the ACM 9.9 (1966): 671-678. http://folk.uio.no/simula67/Archive/artikkel1966cacm.pdf ↩
Fritzson, Peter, and Vadim Engelson. "Modelica—A unified object-oriented language for system modeling and simulation." European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1998. http://extras.springer.com/2000/978-3-540-67660-7/papers/1445/14450067.pdf ↩