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The designers of the Simula-67 language (Birtwhistle, Dahl, Myhrhaug & Nygaard 1973) introduced a powerful construct that has had an enormous impact on the process of software development for more that thirty years: the ‘prefixing’ construct of Simula-67 is the ancestor of the inheritance mechanisms found in modern object-oriented (OO) programming languages.
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Gardner, T.A. (2002). Introduction. In: Inheritance Relationships for Disciplined Software Construction. Distinguished Dissertations. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0121-5_1
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