> <i>it is the progenitor of the most popular, and reviled program paradigm, Object Oriented Programming. Designed by Ole-Johan Dahl, and Kristen Nygaard in 1962 at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo</i><p>What the author writes in the first sentence only applies to Simula 67, which indeed was the first general purpose object-oriented programming language; Simula I instead was quite different, not yet object-oriented, and dedicated to simulation.<p>> <i>Then, in 1991 another language would enter the playing field, Java, and the rest is history.</i><p>Java actually used the object model of Simula 67; James Gosling gave a talk about it at the 50th anniversary in Oslo. Here is the link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccRtIdlTqlU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccRtIdlTqlU</a>