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Experience from the standardization of the SIMULA programming language
Author(s) -
Palme Jacob
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380060314
Subject(s) - simula , standardization , computer science , programming language , implementation , compatibility (geochemistry) , compiler , engineering , operating system , chemical engineering
SIMULA is a high‐level language comparable in power to PL/I or ALGOL 68. SIMULA compilers exist for eight different computer series. SIMULA is standardized by a committee mainly consisting of one representative for each implementation. This has given good compatibility between the implementations and the efficient handling of standards problems. The fact that the SIMULA language is defined in such a way that there are no undefined constructs in the language has also helped compatibility and standardization.