Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!cph-1.news.DK.net!dkuug!dknet!funny.bahnhof.se!solace!nntp.uio.no!Norway.EU.net!oslonett.no!sn.no!usenet From: espenk@objectware.no (Espen Frimann Koren) Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: Simula Reference Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 07:27:39 GMT Organization: Objectware AS Lines: 49 Message-ID: <4itksn$3e9@hasle.sn.no> References: <314FF89A.52BFA1D7@informatik.th-darmstadt.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: beryllium.objectware.no X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Thomas Kuehne wrote: >I have not been able to find a Simula newsgroup or a different >source of information of Simula. I think there is a local group for the students of the University of Oslo, mybe you can find somethings at http.//www.ifi.uio.no >As Beta inherits from Simula, I hope someone reading this newsgroup >may help me. >I would like to check, whether Simula67 had a special assignment statement ':-' for >pointers. Yes, Simula 67 has this assigment operator. >If true, why did Beta drop this concept? >I found the following reference, but do not know how to actually get >the paper. >@TechReport{Dahl67a, > author = "O.-J. Dahl and K. Nygaard", > title = "{Simula Begin}", > institution = "Norsk Regnesentral (Norwegian Computing Center)", > year = "1967", > address = "Oslo/N", >} >I have access to the HOPL proceedings, but the contained article about Simula >does not talk about a pointer assignment statement. >Greetings, > Thomas >+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ >| Thomas Kuehne | >| Institut fuer Systemarchitektur | >| Fachgebiet praktische Informatik Tel.: 06151/165420 | >| Technische Universitaet Darmstadt Fax.: 06151/165472 | >| Magdalenenstr. 11c kuehne@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de | >| D-64289 Darmstadt http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~kuehne | >| "The more you know, the more you know what you don't know." | >+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ EspenK