On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:53 AM, David Bell<[email protected]> wrote: > If for historical and nostalgic reasons alone, your "exotic languages" > versions are a great addition! Since I got out of college just before > anything useful was taught in computer science/compting theory, I > learned mostly on my own. CACM Journal entries in Algol were and still > are of historic importance,
Ah, but how come no Simula? This was a phenomenal language, in 1967 it already had full object-oriented technology in place: classes, inheritance, virtual functions, the new operator, the this pointer, run time type identification, etc. All this is currently considered synonymous with C++ but it in fact existed in 1967! I remember programming in Simula in the late '70s on a CDC Cyber. Tres cool... Simula's syntax was Algol-based. Bjarne Stroustrup (the creator of C++) of course credits Simula with those techniques, the keywords he used were lifted straight from it. IMHO the inventors of Simula should be as well-known as Dennis Ritchie, Niklaus Wirth, etc. Yet hardly anyone knows them. So here are their names: Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. Excuse the off-topic post, I couldn't resist this little walk down the memory lane... -- Jan --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
