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Walking the corridors of the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo in the mid-1980s, one could see large stickers on several office doors claiming that “Simula does it with class”. This bold statement was a play on words that literally pointed to the fact that the programming language Simula embodied the important paradigm of object-oriented programming through defining the concept of classes. Metaphorically, the statement demonstrated the department’s pride of knowing that a quantum leap in the theory and practice of programming languages was due to two persons in its midst, professors Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. The language had an elegance that promoted code aesthetics and their research contribution was undeniably world class.
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Lysne, O., Bruaset, A.M. (2010). Simula — The Language. In: Tveito, A., Bruaset, A., Lysne, O. (eds) Simula Research Laboratory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01156-6_11
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