Simula

Simula is a programming language developed in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Centre in Oslo, primarily by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. Syntactically, it is a superset of Algol60, adding features that are close to the modern idea of classes and objects, plus coroutines.

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Programming language - Norwegian Computing Centre - Oslo - Ole-Johan Dahl - Kristen Nygaard - Algol60 - Classes - Objects - Coroutines

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Simula introduced the object-oriented programming paradigm and thus can be considered the first object-oriented programming language and a predecessor to Smalltalk, C++, Java, C#, and all modern class-based object-oriented languages. As its name implies, Simula was designed for doing simulations, and the needs of that domain provided the framework for many of the features of object-oriented languages today.

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Object-oriented - Programming paradigm - Object-oriented programming language - Smalltalk - C++ - Java - C# - Class-based

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Simula was never just an academic language (it was still used for a few real-world applications as of 2003), but its historical influence is considered far more important than any actual work done with it.

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