Martin Rodgers wrote:
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| How many programmers today even remember Simula?
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Or circa-1970 POOMAS (POOr MAn's Simula)? A set of BLISS macros (written
at CMU) that let you create/manipulate Simula-style objects and threads
in BLISS, using the builtin BLISS co-routine call "EXCHJ" for threading.
Years later, Bakul Shah & I ported a POOMAS subset to C ["A Simple Simulation
Toolkit in C", USENIX 1984], using setjmp/longjmp instead of EXCHJ, and
I've have been carrying it around with me ever since, using it for small
one-off discrete event simulation tasks.

So I guess I've been doing "object-oriented programming" for 30 years, eh?
Hmmm...

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| I feel like I live in age where I'm one of the few living people who 
| can read books. ...  This is computing's Dark Age.
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Similar sentiments may be found in Rob Pike talk "Systems Software Research
is Irrelevant" <URL:http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/rob/utah2000.ps>.


-Rob

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