On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 15:32:15 -0800 (PST), Stede Troisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had no idea OOP was started in the 70s! I have a lot > to learn.
The language that most people credit for introducing key OO ideas was Simula-67, released (as the name indicates) in 1967, so really it was started before the '70s. However, the most commonly accepted first "true" OO language was Smalltalk-72. Check out http://www.smalltalk.org/smalltalk/TheEarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk_Abstract.html for some good background here. All this was long before my time[1], but my university included a comprehensive "History of Programming Languages" course. [1] Actually, not quite true... I wrote my first program at the tender age of 6, on a Commodore PET, in the halycon days of early 1981. A lovely little program on how to feed an elephant, as memory serves. -- "Software is too expensive to build cheaply" Robert Watkins http://twasink.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
