Nygaard won the 2001 Turing Award for ideas fundamental to the emergence of object-oriented programming, through their design of the programming languages Simula I and Simula 67.
Object-oriented programming originated with the Simula language developed by Kristen Nygaard in Oslo in the 1960s. Now, from the birthplace of OOP, comes the new BETA programming language, for which this book is both tutorial and reference.