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Re:An opinionated history of programming languages by socialdemocrat on Sunday October 04, 2020 @04:11AM (#24677254)
Yes most people know it because Americans are good at marketing themselves and Norwegians , who made Simula, are pretty bad at marketing because being humble and and not blow your own horn is kind of a big deal.

But I know at the University of Oslo there has been some annoyance that Simula’s place in programming history is so unknown while smalltalk has this outsized role.

Smalltalk definitely inspired Objective-C but C++ is clearly derived from Simula. As a fellow Scandinavian Bjarne was well aware of Simula and an active user of it.

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Re:An opinionated history of programming languages by 59nadir on Sunday October 11, 2020 @11:28AM (#24746433)
Bjarne Stroustrup learned most of what he knows about OO from Kristen Nygaard personally, as he was at Aarhus University at the same time as Nygaard was there. He'd sit and talk to Nygaard for hours, but noted in an interview with Lex Fridman that it was usually just Nygaard talking at him for hours and him soaking as much as possible up. So even "well aware" is a bit of an understatement.
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