Author : David McArthur
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Book Synopsis The ROSS Language Manual by : David McArthur
Download or read book The ROSS Language Manual written by David McArthur and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Note summarizes the commands of the ROSS language. ROSS is an object-oriented programming language currently being developed at Rand. The goal of ROSS is to provide a programming environment in which users can conveniently design, test and change large knowledge-based simulations of complex mechanisms. Object-oriented programming languages, and ROSS in particular, enforce a 'message-passing' style of programming in which the system to be modeled is represented as a set of actors and their behaviors (rules for actor interaction). This style is especially suited to simulation, since the mechanism or process to be simulated may have a part-whole decomposition that maps naturally onto actors. The first section of this Note gives an overall view of the language and the philosophy behind object-oriented programming. The next eleven sections give detailed descriptions of the basic commands or behaviors of the language. The final two sections give advice on how to write English-like code in ROSS and how to optimize code, once debugged. (Author).