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From: dcw@doc.ic.ac.uk (Duncan C White)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Any Simula-67 fans out there?
Message-ID: <465@ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 11:53:41 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 26 11:53:41 1987
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Reply-To: dcw@doc.ic.ac.uk (Duncan C White)
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In article <606@haddock.UUCP> karl@haddock.ISC.COM.UUCP (Karl Heuer) writes:
>Somehow, I have always been under the impression that it was from Sweden, not
>Norway.  Which is it really?  (And would anyone happen to know the
>significance of the string "ZYQ" in that compiler?)
>
>Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint
>(I've expanded the distribution to "world" for this subdiscussion.)

To quote from SIMULA BEGIN:

[page 10: Preface]

+ ...the programming language SIMULA .. was designed by three of the authors
+ [of SIMULA BEGIN] whilst staff members at the Norwegian Computing Centre
+ Oslo.

The confusion may arise because all the copies I've seen of SIMULA BEGIN [2nd
Edition] are printed in Sweden.

'Fraid I know nothing about the meaning of ZYQ, though....  still, a little
mystery is good for the soul. :-)

This discussion started by someone asking about good SIMULA tutorials/books.
My vote goes on "The Green Book" [ that is, "Introduction to SIMULA-67",
by Gunther Lamprecht, ISBN 3-528-13340-6, printed in Bremen, Germany ]

When I recently wanted to know the syntax of 'virtual', I turned first to
SIMULA BEGIN, and found two references in the index: 1). a one paragraph
comment introducing the concept, but not making the syntax clear, and 2).
a table of reserved words!

I then turned to the green book, and it had only one reference in the
index, but it gave a proper example, making the syntax a lot clearer!

		Duncan.

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