Learn SIMULA with Real Code Examples

Educational tools for teaching OO concepts

Research simulations for academic use

Historical software demonstrations

Prototype simulations of real-world systems

Archival projects on programming languages

Primarily educational and historical preservation

Integration with modern educational simulators

Enhanced visualization for teaching simulations

Study and comparison with modern OO languages

Research on historical language influence

Modern web development

Mobile or cloud applications

High-performance computing

Projects needing large modern libraries

Production software requiring multi-threaded concurrency

Simula pioneered object-oriented programming and discrete-event simulation.

It introduced classes, objects, inheritance, and coroutines.

Primarily of historical and educational interest today.

Influenced modern languages like C++ and Java.

Ideal for learning OO principles and simulation modeling.

Is Simula still used?

Rarely; mainly academic and historical interest.

Does Simula support object-oriented programming?

Yes, it introduced classes, objects, and inheritance.

Can Simula perform simulations?

Yes, designed for discrete-event simulation.

Is Simula relevant for modern development?

Mostly for understanding OO history and simulation concepts.

Who created Simula?

Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard in the 1960s.