Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!newsfeed.sunet.se!news00.sunet.se!sunic!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!news.up.net!news.mtu.edu!msunews!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!warwick!news.ncl.ac.uk!carr8.ncl.ac.uk!nrk From: "R. Kerr" Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: [??] Reference check (Simula) Date: 10 Jun 1996 09:56:53 GMT Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4pgrh5$ar6@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk> References: <31B786D5.7DE14518@eiffel.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: carr8.ncl.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Bertrand Meyer (bertrand@eiffel.com) wrote: > The first edition of my book "Object-Oriented Software > Construction" (Prentice Hall, 1988) contains a discussion > of Simula and the following sentence in the Bibliographical > Notes to the corresponding chapter: > The most up-to-date official reference is the Swedish > national standard [SIS 1987]. > referring to the following bibliography entry: > [SIS 1987] > SIS: Data Processing- Programming Languages - SIMULA, > Standardiseringskommissionen i Sverige (Swedish Standards > Institute), Svensk Standard SS 63 61 14, 20 May 1987. > This was indeed true at the time of the first edition. > I do have the document quoted, which I used to check > my Simula examples. I am now preparing the second edition; > since I haven't closely followed the official Simula scene, > I don't know if there is any more recent official version > of the standard. I am not aware of any official published definition of SIMULA since the one to which you refer above, Bertrand. There have been meetings of the SIMULA Standards Group since then and no doubt these have resulted in corrections and perhaps minor additions to the language but I don't have any details. Probably the best sources of information are currently Gunnar Syrrist (Simula a.s. - simula@sn.no), Boris Magnusson (Lund Software House - boris@dna.lth.se) and Henry Islo (secretary of the Association of SIMULA Users - hio@intek.se). Cheers....Ron