boris@lth.UUCP (Boris Magnusson) (03/08/85)
In the context of object-oriented programming and Smalltalk requests on information on its ancestor SIMULA has been brought up. Here are a few pointers that might be useful: Books: ----- * G. Birtwistle et. al.: SIMULA BEGIN Studentlitteratur, Sweden and AUERBACH, Philadelphia 1973. ISBN 91-44-06211-7 This is a text book on Simula for someone with earlier experience in programming. It is slightly geared towards simulation but is also useful when studing Simula as a general purpose language. * O.-J. Dahl &C.A.R Hoare: Hierarcical Program Structures, Chapter 3 in: Dahl, Dijkstra & Hoare: Structured Programming. Academic Press, London & New York, 9172 A more theoretical presentation of programming concepts with less details on Simula. * K. Nygaard & O.-J. Dahl: The development of the Simula Languages. - SIGPLAN Notices 13,4 (Aug 78), and also in: - R.Wexelblatt:History of Programming Languages, Academic Press 1981 - Norwegian Computing Center (NCC) 1978, Publ. no. 603. Gives very interesting information on the development and historical background of Simula. * R. Pooley: An introduction to programming with SIMULA 67. To be published by Blackwell Scientific Publications Ltd, Oxford, England in spring 1985. A beginners text on Simula. * G. Birtwistle: Bibliography on Simula. C.S. Dept. University of Calgary, Canada. Contains an overwhelming list of references to Simula. * Dahl, Myhrhaug & Nygaard: Simula - Common Base Language NCC Publication 743, Oslo, Feb 1984. The definition document. The current version has been substantially revised since the more spread edition from 1972. The Algol report is now merged into the document. There are also a couple of books on Simula in Scandinavian languages, as well as books on Descrete Event Simulation in Simula. Simula Newsletter ----------------- A quarterly publication with news and information on Simula development. Is distributed *FREE* to all subscribers. Just register your interest with the ASU. A list of available Simula implementations was published in the last issue. Association of Simula Users (ASU) --------------------------------- Organizes conferences, workshops and schools on Simula, Publishes the Newsletter. ASU welcommes everyone interested in Simula as members. The membership is *FREE*. The next conference is to be held in Calgary 28th-20th of Aug 1985. Prices are modest, approx: $20(students) $60(faculty) $80(industry). See you all there ! There is also a School on Simula in Groningen, the Netherlands on 23rd - 25th of April 1985. Send your registrations or Newsletter subscriptions to: * ASU Secretary, Mrs Eileen Schreiner * Norwegian Computing Center * P.O.B. 335, Blindern, * Oslo 3, NORWAY or send me a note and I will forward it for you. Boris Magnusson