Loopn

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  LOOPN
       
           A {compiler}, {simulator},
          and associated {source} control for an {object-oriented}
          {Petri net} language developed by Charles Lakos
           at the {University of


          Tasmania}.  In LOOPN, a Petri net is an extension of a
          {coloured timed Petri net}.  The extension means firstly that
          token types are {class}es.  In other words, they consist of
          both data fields and functions, they can be declared by
          inheriting from other token types, and they can be used
          {polymorphic}ally.  The object-oriented extensions also mean
          that module or subnet types are classes.
       
          LOOPN has been developed over a period of about five years at
          the University of Tasmania, where it has been used in teaching
          computer simulation and the modelling of {network}
          {protocols}.
       
          {(ftp://ftp.cs.adelaide.edu.au/pub/OPN/loopn/)}.
       
          (2000-09-02)