TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davis,Paul K.
ED  - Rand Strategy Assessment Center.
ED  - National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
ED  - United States.
TI  - An analyst's primer for the RAND/ABEL programming language
SN  - 0833016989
AV  - QA76.73.A14 D38 1990
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Santa Monica, CA
PB  - RAND
KW  - ABEL (Computer program language)
KW  - Programming languages (Electronic computers)
N1  - "A research publication from the RAND Strategy Assessment Center."; "May 1990."; The registered trademark symbol "R" is superscript following "RAND/ABEL" in the title; This research "was conducted in the RAND Strategy Assessment Center ... part of RAND's National Defense Research Institute"--Preface; Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format
N2  - This Note is a primer for analysts wishing to use the RAND/ABEL programming language, a fast, high-level, strongly typed procedural language developed for use in building large and complex knowledge-based simulations in a C/UNIX environment. The primer supplements the comprehensive reference manual by providing a simple introduction and problem sets. The targeted reader is an analyst with subject-area knowledge, modeling capability, and a general understanding of computer programming, but only modest programming skills. After reading this primer and working through the exercises provided, such a person should be able to read and modify substantive logic within RAND/ABEL programs, although sometimes going to the reference manual and depending on more proficient programmers for complex operations or subtle debugging
UR  - http://www.rand.org/publications/N/N3042/
ER  -