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From: robert@cheviot.UUCP (Robert Stroud)
Newsgroups: net.lang.st80,net.lang
Subject: Re: Smalltalk-80 vs. Simula o-o programming
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Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 12:55:15 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 25 12:55:15 1985
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Summary: 

I passed some of the recent discussion about Simula and object oriented
programming onto our local Simula expert who asked me to post this reply.

He is referring to an article by Stan Shebs (shebs@utah-cs) which described
Simula as Object-Oriented Algol, or Smalltalk in Algol.

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It was interesting to read Stan Sheb's initial comments on SIMULA.
Rather than describing SIMULA as "Smalltalk in ALGOL" it is more
accurate to call Smalltalk "interactive SIMULA". I would commend
anyone to read "Alan Kay's Magical Mystery Tour" published in, of
all places, the TWA Ambassador flight magazine of January, 1984.
SIMULA has been around in its present form for over 15 years and
some of its concepts go back to the original SIMULA of 1962.
Does everyone know that :
  SIMULA is a GENERAL-PURPOSE language,
  SIMULA is available on an extensive range of machines,
  there is a SIMULA work station called "Mach-S",
  there is an international Association of SIMULA Users (ASU),
  the next ASU annual conference will be held in Calgary in August, 1985.
 
If anyone would like more information on SIMULA, please contact:
               Ron_Kerr%Newcastle@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA