
Advent of Computing Episode 179 - Programming Block by Block
Apr 4, 2026
01:01:59
In which we discuss GPSS: the General Purpose Simulation Language. As for as languages go, this is a unique one. It's designed for certain types of simulations. It's code is just a handy way to feed a flowchart into a computer. It's design is closer to an analog computer than it is to a programming language. Yet GPSS is Turing Complete. Step inside and prepare to be... confused!
The big source of the show:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/960118.808382 - The Development of GPSS
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