Simula — The Language

Olav Lysne and Are Magnus Bruaset
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Chapter 11 in Simula Research Laboratory, 2010, pp 113-117 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Walking the corridors of the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo in the mid-1980s, one could see large stickers on several office doors claiming that “Simula does it with class”. This bold statement was a play on words that literally pointed to the fact that the programming language Simula embodied the important paradigm of object-oriented programming through defining the concept of classes. Metaphorically, the statement demonstrated the department’s pride of knowing that a quantum leap in the theory and practice of programming languages was due to two persons in its midst, professors Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. The language had an elegance that promoted code aesthetics and their research contribution was undeniably world class.

Keywords: Programming Language; Programming Paradigm; Service Element; Quantum Leap; Important Paradigm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01156-6_11

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