Hydro(ID:7618/)

Simulation language for hydrological research

IBM 1968
References:
  • Bugliarello, G. "Programming needs in the water resources field and the role of a problem-oriented language" in Proceedings, IBM Scientific Computing Symposium, Environmental Sciences, 1966 November 14-16. IBM report no. 320- 3951, pp165-184. 1967. view details
  • Review of Bugliarello 1967 (Hydro) view details Abstract: Discusses the need for very large, real-time, command and control programs on water resources management, and the need for a specialized language in developing such programs. Uses two examples to demonstrate some of the features of Hydro, a pilot language under development at Carnegie Institute of Technology and evidently implemented as a preprocessor to Algol. In one example, 26 lines of Hydro code are said to have generated over 400 lines of Algol code. Hydro seems to consist largely of a set of standard data elements, and a set of standard procedures.

          in Sigplan Notices December 1967 view details