Paper1993
The Early History of Smalltalk
Alan C. Kay
Recounts Smalltalk's design, arguing objects sending messages to each other, not classes or inheritance, was the idea that actually mattered.
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Object-Oriented Programming
A topic within Programming Languages, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
Reading on Object-Oriented Programming
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Paper1978
The Development of the SIMULA Languages
Ole-Johan Dahl & Kristen Nygaard
Traces how SIMULA's class construct grew out of a language for writing discrete-event simulations, and became the first language with objects, classes and inheritance.
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