Re: Navy simulators

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1 total messages Started by Rob Pooley Thu, 17 Oct 1996 00:00

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Author: Rob Pooley
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 00:00

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Stig Hemmer wrote:
>
> SIMULA was one of the very first object-oriented languages, if I'm not
> mistaken is it older than the term 'object-oriented'.
>

Stig is right. Simula dates from at least ten years before anyone started
talking about "object oriented" languages.

It also introduced the concept of active objects several years before
"Actors" appeared on the scene.

General discussion of simulation topics happens on the Newsgroup
comp.simulation.

Rob

Dr Rob Pooley, Senior Lecturer
Department of Computer Science
Edinburgh University
Kings Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, Scotland
Tel: +44 131 650 5123   Fax: +44 131 667 7209
rjp@dcs.ed.ac.uk

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