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1970's: Technology

• SIMULA 67: classes, inheritance, data abstraction

• Pascal: small, elegant, structured prog., teaching

• C: systems programming, efficiency

• Modula-2: Pascal + modules, better for sys. prog.

• Prolog: first logic language, AI-oriented

• Smalltalk: pure OO, interpreted, entire system

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SIMULA 67

Pascal

C

Modula-2

Prolog

Smalltalk