Wed Dec 19 2001 at 3:54:55
"In the spring of 1967, a new employee of the Norwegian Computing Center in a very shocked voice told the switchboard operator: 'Two men are fighting violently in front of the blackboard in the upstairs corridor. What shall we do?' The operator came out of the office, listened for a few seconds and then said: 'Relax, it's only Dahl and Nygaard discussing SIMULA."
The SIMULA programming language was created by Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl. The idea for the language began in 1961, when Nygraad had an idea for a simulation language. That is, SIMULA was created to be a discrete event simulation language. A language that could, for example, be used to simulate an airport departure area, or a the work flow of a factory; a language that would be of interest to people in operations research, of which Nygraad was one.