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Kristen Nygaard
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Kristen Nygaard (27 August 1926 – 10 August 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist, programming language pioneer, and politician. Internationally, Nygaard is acknowledged as the co-inventor of object-oriented programming and the programming language Simula with Ole-Johan Dahl in the 1960s. Nygaard and Dahl received the 2001 A. M. Turing Award for their contribution to computer science.
Quotes
To program is to understand.
The world language is English as spoken by foreigners.
"In memoriam", Sat 24 Aug, 2002
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Category:People from Oslo
Category:Computer scientists
Category:2002 deaths
Category:Turing Award laureates
Category:Politicians from Norway