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Ole-Johan Dahl (12 October 1931 – 29 June 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist. Dahl was a professor of computer science at the University of Oslo and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along with Kristen Nygaard .
Jun 25, 2024 · Ole-Johan Dahl (born October 12, 1931, Mandal, Norway—died June 29, 2002, Asker) was a Norwegian computer scientist who created the first object-oriented programming languages, Simula I and Simula 67, with his longtime colleague Kristen Nygaard.
Ole-Johan Dahl was born on 12th October 1931 in Mandal, a small town on the south coast of Norway. Although now a resort, the residents of Mandal had historically looked to the sea for their livelihoods, and Dahl was descended on both sides from long lines of sea captains and sailors.
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, [1] : 1.3.1 and was also influenced by the design of Simscript. [2]
Ole-Johan Dahl. Born October 12, 1931, Mandal, Norway; with Kristen Nygaard, developer of the SIMULA programming language, which introduced classes and inheritance into the field of programming languages. Education: MS, numerical mathematics, University of Oslo, 1957.
Jun 29, 2002 · Professor Ole-Johan Dahl was a Norwegian computer scientist and is considered to be the father of Simula and object-oriented programming, together with Kristen Nygaard. Dahl is a member of the small group of scientists who will be regarded as founders of their own field of science.
Feb 11, 2016 · Biography. When Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard created the Simula languages in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center, they introduced a new way of modeling and programming complex tasks.
Ole-Johan Dahl. 1931-. Norwegian computer scientist who, with Kirsten Nygaard, developed Simula, the first object-oriented programming language. Object-oriented programming was a completely new paradigm in computer programming and has had a profound impact on the way in which computer programs are written.
Oct 10, 2013 · In 1963 Dahl left the NDRE and joined Nygaard Kristen at NR (Norwegian Computing Centre) which was a semi-governmental research institute. In 1968 Ole-Johan Dahl was invited to be a full professor to create the discipline of computer science at the University of Oslo.
Dec 5, 2011 · Education and Career. University Education. When Dahl began his studies (1949, University of Oslo) at university, computing science did not exist as a discipline but as a part of mathematics, and the central tool was the computer (programmed in machine language and not higher programming languages), the development of which was just beginning.
