Abstract
This chapter reviews two simulation languages, which stimulate some fresh ideas as to how one might apply simulation to population studies. Many tasks that are common to all simulations are simplified with special purpose simulation languages. There are several such computer languages. The two languages, SIMSCRIPT and DYNAMO, represent “discrete state” versus “continuous” approaches to computer simulation. This chapter presents an example of a non-fatal contagious disease epidemic in SIMSCRIPT and DYNAMO. The majority of simulation models are programmed in formula translating system (FORTRAN). Thus, FORTRAN is the primary simulation language and the growth and development of special purpose simulation languages has been slow. Special languages do not save substantial amounts of computer time, but the overall cost of a project is reduced if the number of man-months of programming required to develop a simulation model is decreased.
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