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Simula
SIM-yoo-luh
Also Known As Simula 67
Simulation Language
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Simula is the name of two simulation programming languages, Simula I and Simula 67, developed in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. Simula 67 introduced objects, classes, inheritance and subclasses, virtual procedures and coroutines, and Simula is considered the first object oriented programming language; Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, and James Gosling, creator of Java, have acknowledged it as a major influence.
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First ReleasedSimula 67, the variant that introduced objects, classes and inheritance; Simula I preceded it in the same decade. SignificanceConsidered the first object oriented programming language, and an acknowledged major influence on C++, Java and Smalltalk. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Considered the first object oriented programming language; the paradigm's Simula origin account is one side of the debated origin this atlas records on the OOP entity.
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1. Wikipedia: Simula
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Simula is the name of two simulation programming languages, Simula I and Simula 67, developed in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo, by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard.
1. Wikipedia: Simula
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Simula 67 introduced objects, classes, inheritance and subclasses, virtual procedures, coroutines, and discrete event simulation.
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Computer scientists such as Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, and James Gosling, creator of Java, have acknowledged Simula as a major influence.
Wikipedia: Kristen Nygaard
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With Ole-Johan Dahl, he developed the initial ideas for object-oriented programming (OOP) in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center (Norsk Regnesentral (NR)) as part of the Simula I (1961-1965) and Simula 67 (1965-1968) simulation programming languages.
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