Simula is regarded the first object oriented language and the purpose of the language was simulation. The idea of using an object oriented approach to simulati

Simula is regarded the first object oriented language and the purpose of the language was simulation. The idea of using an object oriented approach to simulation goes back to at least the sixties. The way I read his post is that working on sets of information tends to be easier in functional languages event based simulations tends to be easier in object oriented languages.