freebsd-ports/lang/cim/pkg-descr
David E. O'Brien 6f444c8544 Compiler for the SIMULA programming language
Closes-PR:	ports/2069
Submitted by:	Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
1996-12-04 08:01:30 +00:00

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The SIMULA programming language was designed and built by Ole-Johan Dahl
and Kristen Nygaard at the Norwegian Computing Centre (NCC) in Oslo
between 1962 and 1967.1 It was originally designed and implemented as a
language for discrete event simulation, but was later expanded and
reimplemented as a full scale general purpose programming language.
Although SIMULA never became widely used, the language has been highly
influential on modern programming methodology. Among other things SIMULA
introduced important object-oriented programming concepts like classes and
objects, inheritance, and dynamic binding.
Jan Rune Holmevik
E-mail: jan@utri.no