Simula

Simula is an actively used programming language created in 1965. 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 a fairly faithful superset of ALGOL 60. Simula 67 introduced objects, classes, inheritance and subclasses, virtual procedures, coroutines, and discrete event simulation, and features garbage collection. Read more on Wikipedia...

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• Simula ranks in the top 5% of languages
• the Simula wikipedia page
• Simula first appeared in 1965
• tryitonline has an online Simula repl
• See also: algol-60, object-pascal, java, csharp, algol, smalltalk, beta, doi, isbn
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Example code from the Hello World Collection:

! Hello World in Simula;

BEGIN
    OutText("Hello World!");
    OutImage;
END

Example code from Wikipedia:

Simulation Begin
   Class FittingRoom; Begin
      Ref (Head) door;
      Boolean inUse;
      Procedure request; Begin
         If inUse Then Begin
             Wait (door);
             door.First.Out;
         End;
         inUse:= True;
      End;
      Procedure leave; Begin
         inUse:= False;
         Activate door.First;
      End;
      door:- New Head;
   End;
  
   Procedure report (message); Text message; Begin
      OutFix (Time, 2, 0); OutText (": " & message); OutImage;
   End;

   Process Class Person (pname); Text pname; Begin
      While True Do Begin
         Hold (Normal (12, 4, u));
         report  (pname & " is requesting the fitting room");
         fittingroom1.request;
         report (pname & " has entered the fitting room");
         Hold (Normal (3, 1, u));
         fittingroom1.leave;
         report (pname & " has left the fitting room");
      End;
   End;

   Integer u;
   Ref (FittingRoom) fittingRoom1;

   fittingRoom1:- New FittingRoom;
   Activate New Person ("Sam");
   Activate New Person ("Sally");
   Activate New Person ("Andy");
   Hold (100);
End;

Last updated February 18th, 2020

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