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Kristen Nygaard, co-creator of Simula 67, dies

Posted by chrisd on from the pioneers-pass-on dept.

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."

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  1. Inventing the internet by tunah · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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