Kristen Nygaard, co-creator of Simula 67, dies

jejones writes "Kristen Nygaard, co-creator of Simula 67, a variant of Algol 60 designed for writing simulations that is considered to be the first object-oriented programming language, died of a heart attack on August 10, 2002 in Oslo, Norway. An AP article, truly astonishing in its errors (e.g. "the programming language Simula...laid the basis for MS_DOS and the Internet"?!), can be found here."

Comments

Inventing the internet

[tunah]

The internet thing wasn't a big mistake. They got Algol 60 confused with Algore (60).

Knuth.

[sinserve]

God: "That is it, you have only 48 hours to finish those damn books. You had 48 years, but
you wasted them playing that damn organ at the church. You see, I have sent you to earth to
research and finish MY book, I made you my coauthor and forgave you of all human responsibilies
like worship and prayer. If your mother was an israeli, you could have been my second son, you
know I have a thing or two for jewish chicks [must be the skirts]. But what have you done? you
spent more time writing TeX than I spent writing all my holly books (I could have finished earlier,
but I was busy automating a few things with emacs lisp, I got sick of assembler, God is a real
programmer, dontcha know?)

Now, don't give me no damn excuses, I will not extend your life another second (I can't, I used a
packed structure and I ran out of extra bits for the life field, I know premature optimization is
the root of all evil, but I have a HUGE "human life" database and I need to squeeze the last iota out of this machine)

So, yeah, go ahead and do stuff, umkay? I need to do some apoclypse and stuff and I need a few algos. Just get off that damn organ and write something, willya? and give a copy of it to a guy
called sinserve, he has slashdot ID 455889."