Quick note that inheritance existed in assembly language programming (and programs written using the front panel switches if you want to take things to the limi

Quick note that inheritance existed in assembly language programming (and programs written using the front panel switches if you want to take things to the limit) and were not "invented" in Simula or C++. Those languages invented syntactic sugar for techniques that were quite mature at the time both in assembler and older HLLs such as BCPL and C.