James Gosling - Simula: a personal journey

From the Seminar celebrating the 50 years of Simula: I started using Simula in 1974 (1975?). I even did some bug fixing on the copy of the compiler that we had. It totally transformed the way I thought about software. I did use it for simulation, but I used it in other ways as well. When Smalltalk and C++ came around, neither felt to me like they measured up to Simula. And Simula had a primitive multi-threading model (via co-routines) that was ahead of its time. When it became my turn, and I was working on Java, Simula was very much on my mind.