The Big Oops: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake

The presentation was recently discussed at:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596554 [video] (37 comments)

This current posted link is an article by Casey Muratori with supplementary material on topics to explore further.

- Early History of Smalltalk

- History of C++

- Development of the Simula Languages

- Origins of the APT Language for Automatically Programmed Tools