http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2918 The year of 2007 was a jubilee year, namely the anniversary of 40 years of the object-oriented programming (OOP). Nevertheless, when the first tool allowing application of the OOP paradigm was presented to the world professional community in 1967, it offered much more than the mentioned paradigm. The whole system of the offered tools was later called Super-Object-Oriented programming tools (SOOP). Its origin and its abilities have several intimate relations to computer simulation and to computing anticipatory systems. The properties of the OOP and of SOOP and their differing are presented in the paper and the relation to the computing anticipatory systems as well. Full text issues Volume 20 40 years of Object-Oriented Programming fr Tue, 03 Sep 2024 15:50:46 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:11:53 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2918 0