The Genesis of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP): A Historical Overview (2023)

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Rochus

3 minutes ago

I get a 504 Gateway Timeout. Here is a working copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20260410221550/https://brightmar...

> Simula 1 and Simula 67 [..] are recognized as the first object-oriented programming languages

This only applies to Simula 67. Simula I was a discrete-event simulation language. It didn't have the features which we today associate with "object-oriented".

> Alan Kay [..] introduced the term “object-oriented”

Did he? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36879311.