Re: logically weird loop

On 05.12.2024 02:07, Tim Rentsch wrote:

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

>
Actually, if you know Simula, coroutines are inherent part of that
language, and they based their yet more advanced process-oriented
model on these.  I find it amazing what Simula provided (in 1967!)
to support such things.  Object orientation[*], coroutines, etc.,
all fit together, powerful, and in a neat syntactical form. - But
"no one" is using Simula, and my friend was using C++; don't know
what C++ supports in that respect today.  I know that he implemented
the "simulation" parts (queuing, time-model, etc.) in C++ himself.
>
[*] It was the language who invented Object Orientation [...]

 
No, it wasn't.  First, programming in a language with classes and
objects does not imply object-oriented programming.

It does not necessarily imply it. But if you'd know some more about
it you might understand that it's the natural way of thinking when
simulating systems' objects, and modeling object structures. Simula
in a natural way provided the platform to program object oriented.
(As said, without coining the term or speaking about "OO".)

Second, the
underlying ideas of object-oriented programming pre-date Simula 67
by five years or more.

Of course the ideas were there before Simula was released in 1967;
the inventors (also publicly) presented their ideas five years ago.

That history has been pointed out by
Alan Kay, who is the originator of the term and is responsible
for pioneering the concept.

Yes, the Simula "OO" pioneers didn't invent the *term* "OO", but they
were (amongst) the first who spread the ideas and the first inventing
a language to model OO and work with the OO concepts that are still
used and implemented in many other OO languages nowadays.

(All the rest is [IMO] no more than dogmatic or marketing.)

If you have some substance on the topic I'm always interested to hear.

Janis