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Frommy experience of a few years ago, I would not compare SimKit with DEMOS at
all. They approach things in a radically different way.

SimKit is an AI oriented approach to discrete event simulation. It uses (or
used to use) a Lisp based application development environment. It had some
advantages in flexibility from such an approach, but at the expense of secure
typing and, most crucially, runtime efficiency when compared to SIMULA and
DEMOS. To my (biased) point of view, SimKit is a nice bright toy, while
DEMOS is a powerful engine waiting to be used for real applications.

Who says DEMOS can't link in C code, by the way? No problems for any half
decent SIMULA compiler to handle that. There is a defined language interface
for calling functions in C.

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Rob Pooley
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