On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:15 AM, John F. Sowa wrote:
> [...]
> JR:
>> In one case, early 1970's, Simula educed a new way of representing
>> intelligence spacecraft in a computational device. Then current
>> practice was to write programs representing the spacecraft operations
>> and limits.
>
> Yes. Simula 67 was the world's first object-oriented programming
> language, and in some respects it was more advanced than some current
> versions. Some of the talks at that 1980 conference related those
> techniques to AI and DB -- in ways that are called ontology today. (01)
John,
Perhaps I am being too picky but I think Simula is a modeling language, not a
programming language.
In fact, Objective C and Smalltalk made a high percentage of the decisions
normally made by programmers for them, in context. (02)
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