Simula – The forgotten programming language
A bit of a tangent, but it's interesting how many languages come from Nordic countries:<p>- Simula - Norway<p>- C++ - Stroustrup is Danish<p>- TypeScript / C# - Hjelsberg is Danish<p>- PHP - Lerdorf is Danish<p>- the v8 team including Lars Bak is Danish, and has developed several languages<p>- Erlang - from Ericsson in Sweden, though Joe Armstrong was British<p>Well now that I write it out, it seems like it's even more Danes than Nordic countries!<p>(Someone wrote pretty much the same comment here in 2016 - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10833073">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10833073</a>)<p>Hm also from the same thread, L, M, and P from the LAMP stack all originated in Scandinavia!  Didn't realize that  <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10835311">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10835311</a>