Simula

Simula is the name of two simulation programming languages, Simula I and Simula 67, developed in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo, by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. Syntactically, it is an approximate superset of ALGOL 60, and was also influenced by the design of SIMSCRIPT. Wikipedia

Created Year: 1962
Designed by: Ole-Johan Dahl
Developed by: Kristen Nygaard
Operating systems: Unix-like operating systemMicrosoft Windowsz/OSTOPS-10MVS
Named after: simulation language

Wikidata: Q212569

Influenced: C++CLUEiffelEmeraldJavaPascalSmalltalkSqueakTurbo PascalWolfram Language

Influenced by: SIMSCRIPT

Programming paradigms: imperative programmingobject-oriented programmingstructured programmingprocedural programming

Language types: object-based languagesimulation language

Simula Influence Network

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Hello World in Simula

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   OutText ("Hello World");
   Outimage;
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Latest data update: 2025-11-10