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Simula the Forgotten Programming Language
- Rochus 4y ago> it is the progenitor of the most popular, and reviled program paradigm, Object Oriented Programming. Designed by Ole-Johan Dahl, and Kristen Nygaard in 1962 at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo What the author writes in the first sentence only applies to Simula 67, which indeed was the first general purpose object-oriented programming language; Simula I instead was quite different, not yet object-oriented, and dedicated to simulation. > Then, in 1991 another language would enter the playing field, Java, and the rest is history. Java actually used the object model of Simula 67; James Gosling gave a talk about it at the 50th anniversary in Oslo. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccRtIdlTqlU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccRtIdlTqlU