In what programming language of the 1960s does object orientation find its roots? Who invented that language? Summarize the evolution of the three defining characteristics since that time.

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In what programming language of the 1960s does object orientation find its roots? Who invented that language? Summarize the evolution of the three defining characteristics since that time.

 

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Simula stands for "simulation language," was the first object-oriented programming language. It was developed in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo, by two Norwegian Computer Scientist Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. It introduced many important object-oriented programming concepts that are now available in mainstream Object Oriented languages such as Java, C++, and C#.

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