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."

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First Dahl, then Dijkstra, now Nygaard.

[arcade]

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?

not an obituary, but at least a mini-bio

[eirikma]

Kristen was a man who always had a lot of interesting and well thought through things to say. His academic contributions will be commented on by computer professionals, and his political contributions will be commented on by politicians. Those who knew him know that he always regarded his work with politics and science as parts of an integrated whole. A fairly recent article where he sums up his work can be found here. Quite interesting (as always).