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2002-08-14-dahlNygaardRIP

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The inventors of object-oriented programming ([create OOP] — Simula) and Turing Award winners Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard have both died within a month and a half.

Ole-Johan Dahl, † [create 2002-06-29]
Kristen Nygaard, † [create 2002-08-09], in memoriam

Alan Kay: "After the HOPL conference, Kristen stopped by and I gave him the same [Smalltalk] demo. What a difference! He not only understood everything I said, but often told me what I was going to show him next. He had been thinking about further steps and he was completely thrilled to see many of these ideas already in Smalltalk. We were great friends from that day onwards. I have given many thousands of demos in the last 40 years, but that was the one that meant the most to me."

Why Kristen Nygaard spearheaded the Norwegian "No-to-EU" (www.neitileu.no) movement.