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Ole-Johan Dahl, Norwegian computer scientist and academic, co-developed Simula (died 2002)

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Ole-Johan Dahl

Norwegian computer scientist

Ole-Johan Dahl was a Norwegian computer scientist. Dahl was a professor of computer science at the University of Oslo and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along with Kristen Nygaard.
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Simula

Early object-oriented programming language

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…
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