Simula Bibliography

History

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Ole-Johan Dahl: The Birth of Object Orientation: the Simula Languages (unpublished, June 2001)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)

Ole-Johan Dahl and Bjørn Myrhaug: Simula implementation guide (NCC S-47, 1973)
Mats Löfgren and Boris Magnusson: Evaluation of implementations of access mechanisms in block structured langauges (Lund University 1982)

Graham Birtwistle: Simula – its features and prospects (BCS conference on High level languages, York 1972; published as NCC S-44, February 1973)
Stein Krogdahl: Concepts and terminology in the Simula programming language (unpublished, April 2010)
Jakob Palme (translated to Norwegian by Bjørn Myrhaug): Simula 67, an advanced programming and simulation language (NCC S-17, May 1970)
Jakob Palme: Ökad datasäkerhet med nytt begrepp i Simula-språket ("Increased data security with new concept in the Simula language") (1973) introduced the hidden/protected construct

Andrew P Black: Object-oriented programming: challenges for the next fifty year (invited talk at the opening of the Ole-Johan Dahl building at the University of Oslo, 2011)