References

Mosel could be described as an original combination of a couple of well known technologies. Here is a non-exhaustive list of the most important 'originators' of Mosel:

• The overall architecture of the system (compiler, virtual machine, native interface) is directly inspired by the Java language. Similar implementations are also commonly used in the languages for artificial intelligence (e.g. Prolog, Lisp).
• The syntax and the major building blocks of the Mosel language are in some aspects a simplification and for other aspects extensions of the Pascal language.
• The aggregate operators (like 'sum') are inherited from the 'tradition of model builders' and can be found in most of today's modeling languages.
• The dynamic arrays and their particular link with sets are probably unique to Mosel but are at their origin a generalization of the sparse tables of the mp-model model builder.