| K. Nygaard and O.J. Dahl. History of Programming Languages, chapter The Development of the Simula Languages. Academic Press, New York, NY, 1981. |
....OO language every variable (entity in Eiffel terminology) is declared to be of a certain type and the language compiler can determine if a client access to an object is valid. The development of OO programming languages started in the 60 s and early 70 s with the advent of the Simula [17] and Smalltalk [18] languages, neither of which are strongly typed. Eiffel emerged in the late 80 s as the use of statically typed, compiled OO languages became more widespread. Eiffel is a class based, strongly typed OO language which provides multiple inheritance, genericity and polymorphism. ....
K. Nygaard and O.J. Dahl. History of Programming Languages, chapter The Development of the Simula Languages. Academic Press, New York, NY, 1981.
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