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