| Ole-johan Dahl |
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| computer pioneers | |
| norwegian computer scientists | |
| turing award laureates | |
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Dahl, born in Mandal , Norway , is widely accepted as Norway’s most famous computer scientist. With Kristen Nygaard, he produced the initial ideas for object-oriented (OO) programming in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center (NCC) as part of the Simula I (1961–1965) and Simula 67 (1965–1968) Simulation Programming Languages . Dahl and Nygaard were the first to develop the concepts of Class , Subclass (allowing implicit Information Hiding ), Inheritance , Dynamic Object Creation , etc., all important aspects of the OO paradigm. An ''object'' is a self-contained component (with a data structure and associated procedures or ''methods'') in a software system. These are combined to form a complete system. The object-oriented approach is now pervasive in modern Software Development , including widely used imperative programming languages such as Java and C++ . Dahl became a full Professor at the University Of Oslo in 1968 and was a gifted teacher as well as researcher. Here he worked on ''Hierarchical Program Structures'', probably his most influential publication, which appeared co-authored with C.A.R. Hoare in the influential book ''Structured Programming'' of 1972 by Dahl, Edsger Dijkstra and Hoare, perhaps the best-know academic book concerning software in the 1970s . As his career progressed, Dahl became increasingly interested in the use of Formal Methods , to rigorously reason about object-orientation for example. Like all good computer scientists, his expertise ranged from the practical application of ideas to their formal mathematical underpinning to ensure the validity of the approach. He received the Turing Award for his work in 2001 . EARLY PAPERS
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