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“CPP was designed to provide Simula’s facilities for program organization (Dahl, 1970) together with C’s efficiency and C's flexibility for systems programming (Kernighan, 1978). Simula was the initial source of CPP’s abstraction mechanisms. The notion of CPP class (with CPP derived classes and CPP virtual functions) was borrowed from Simula. However, CPP templates and CPP exceptions came to CPP later with different sources of CPP inspiration.” (TrCppBS 2022)

Birtwistle, 1979 - Graham Birtwistle, Ole-Johan Dahl, Björn Myrhaug, and Kristen Nygaard: SIMULA BEGIN. Studentlitteratur, Lund, Sweden. 1979. ISBN 91-44-06212-5.