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Re:An opinionated history of programming languages by int_19h on Monday October 05, 2020 @12:33AM (#24684581)
In terms of design influence, Simula is a lot closer to C++, Java, and C# than Smalltalk is, so I don't think that would be accurate even so.

Every time you write "protected" or "virtual", that's Simula speaking.

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Re:An opinionated history of programming languages by Rochus on Monday October 05, 2020 @04:07AM (#24685596)
Classes and "virtual" procedures were indeed already part of the original "Simula 67 Common Base Definition" in June 1967, but "protected" and "hidden" were added later (proposed here https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/956003.956009, and probably added to the Common Base Language in 1982).
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