Where Did Object-Orientation Come From?
Simula was the first object-oriented language providing objects, classes, inheritance, and dynamic typing in 1967 (in addition to its Algol-60 subset). It was intended as a conveyance of object-oriented design. Simula 1 was a simulation language, and the later general-purpose language Simula 67 is now referred to as simply Simula. Smalltalk was the next major contributor including classes, inheritance, a high-powered graphical environment and a powerful dynamic typing mechanism (which existed to some extent in Simula). Self is somewhat of a Smalltalk-based next generation language, as is BETA a followup to Simula (by its original designers). [Meyer 88] contains a brief summary and history of Simula and Smalltalk, among other OO languages.
