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The historical roots of object orientation (OO) can be found in the late 1950s. The Norwegian computer scientists Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl carried out simulation calculations for the development and construction of Norway's first nuclear reactor at the military research institute Norwegian Defense Research Establishment (NDRE). While developing the simulation programs, the two scientists noted that the procedural programming languages used for that task were not well suited for the complexity of the problems to be addressed. Dahl and Nygaard felt the need for suitable possibilities in those languages to abstract and reproduce the structures, concepts, and processes of the real world.
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Roth, S. (2017). Object Orientation. In: Clean C++. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2793-0_6
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