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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. First Dahl, then Dijkstra, now Nygaard. by arcade · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the past couple of months three dinosaurs have passed away. First went Ole Johan Dahl, the other developer of Simula. Then, a week or so ago - Dijkstra passed away. And now Kristen Nygaard.

    Are we now in a time where The Elder Ones are passing away?

    --
    "Rune Kristian Viken" - http://www.nwo.no - arca