Simulaan

Simulaan is a programming language created by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo. Development began in the late 1960s, with the first version, Simula I, released in 1965, and Simula 67 following in 1967. Simula was designed for the purpose of creating simulations, hence its name.

A key contribution of Simula is the introduction of object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts. It pioneered the concepts of classes, objects, inheritance, and virtual methods. These features allowed programmers to model real-world entities and their relationships more effectively, laying the groundwork for many future programming languages. Simula's influence on languages like Smalltalk, C++, Java, and C# is widely recognized.

While Simula itself is not as widely used today as its descendants, its impact on computer science is profound. Its innovative features revolutionized software design and development, making it a foundational language in the history of programming.