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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