These books and articles describe the history of how Simula was developed:
- Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard: SIMULA—An ALGOL-Based Simulation Language (CACM, September 1966)
- Ole-Johan Dahl: The Birth of Object Orientation: the Simula Languages (unpublished, June 2001)
- Jan Rune Holmevik: Compiling SIMULA: A Historical Study of Technological genesis (IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 1994)
- Stein Krogdahl: The birth of Simula (History of Nordic Computing, 2003)