Simulation and 40 Years of Object-Oriented Programming

2007 is a jubilee year: in 1967, programming language SIMULA 67 was presented, which contained all aspects of what was later called object-oriented programming. The present paper contains a description of the development unto the objectoriented programming, the role of simulation in this development and other tools that appeared in SIMULA 67 and that are nowadays called super-object-oriented programming.

• Eugene Kindler

• Simulation
• super-object-oriented programming
• object-oriented programming
• SIMULA.

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