History of 'self' and why not at least 'my'?

James_Althoff at i2.com James_Althoff at i2.com
Fri Jan 11 14:32:03 EST 2002


Paul Rubin wrote:
>Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.pp.ru> writes:
>>    "Self" was borrowed from Object Pascal family (Modula-3, I think).
>
>And also Smalltalk and maybe even Simula.

Smalltalk was the first to use "self".  Simula used/uses "this".

Jim





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