Smalltalk at 30, object-oriented programming
Jon Kleiser
squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Tue Sep 17 07:14:16 UTC 2002
Dear Martin Heller,
In your "Smalltalk at 30" article at www.byte.com, you write that ...
>I frankly had no idea whatsoever that, deep in the bowels of Xerox
>Palo Alto Research Center, the idea of object-oriented programming
>was being born, incarnated as Smalltalk.
I must correct you: The idea of object-oriented programming was born
far away from Palo Alto; it was born in Oslo, Norway, in the early
sixties. The name of the language was SIMULA. You may read the story
here:
<http://www.ifi.uio.no/~kristen/FORSKNINGSDOK_MAPPE/F_OO_start.html>
<http://www.ifi.uio.no/adminf/tribute.html>
<http://www.rescomp.berkeley.edu/~hossman/cs263/paper.html>
The inventors of SIMULA, Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard, both
went away this summer.
<http://www.simula.no/news_one.php?news_id=39>
Sincerely,
Jon Kleiser
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