Simula, the first object-oriented language
Simula, primer lenguaje orientado a objetos
- Date
- 1962-1967 · confidence high
- Place
- Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo, Norway
- Credited to
- Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Simula I (1962-1965) was created to simulate systems, and Simula 67 added classes, objects, inheritance and virtual procedures. It was the origin of object-oriented programming.
Dahl and Nygaard received the Turing Award in 2001. The first Simula 67 compiler was finished in 1969.
What it led to
- Alan Kay's Smalltalk, which took ideas from Simula
- Stroustrup's C++, inspired by Simula
- Java, C# and most current languages