Simula
Sign in to saveSimula is the name of two simulation programming languages, Simula I and Simula 67, developed in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo, by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. Syntactically, it is an approximate superset of ALGOL 60,
Key facts
- Programming language.name
- Simula
- Programming language.logo
- Simula - logo.svg
- Programming language.paradigms
- Multi-paradigm: procedural, imperative, structured, object-oriented
- Programming language.family
- ALGOL
- Programming language.designer
- Ole-Johan Dahl
- Programming language.developer
- Kristen Nygaard
- Programming language.latest release version
- Simula 67, Simula I
- Programming language.typing
- Static, nominative
- Programming language.scope
- Lexical
- Programming language.programming language
- ALGOL 60 (mostly)SIMSCRIPT (some parts)
- Programming language.influenced by
- ALGOL 60, SIMSCRIPT
- Programming language.influenced
- BETA, CLU, Eiffel, Emerald, Pascal, Smalltalk, C++, and many other object-oriented programming languages
- Programming language.operating system
- Unix-like, Windows, z/OS, TOPS-10, MVS
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Sample code
- Minimal program
- Classic Hello world
- Classes, subclasses and virtual procedures
- Call by name
- Simulation
- Notes
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
Simula is the name of two simulation programming languages, Simula I and Simula 67, developed in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo, by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. Syntactically, it is an approximate superset of ALGOL 60,
and was also influenced by the design of SIMSCRIPT.
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