Timeline for Origin of structures and classes

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May 19, 2012 at 14:15	history	tweeted			twitter.com/#!/StackProgrammer/status/203851301057077248
May 18, 2012 at 19:37	history	edited	xralf	CC BY-SA 3.0	deleted 185 characters in body
May 18, 2012 at 19:37	vote	accept	xralf
May 18, 2012 at 19:37	comment	added	xralf		Thank you everybody for answers. The answers that mention IBM 1620, COBOL, Simula 67 and Giorgio's pedagogical explanation of principle create all the core of what I accept as answer.
May 18, 2012 at 19:07	answer	added	Giorgio		timeline score: 5
May 18, 2012 at 17:54	history	edited	xralf	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 185 characters in body
May 18, 2012 at 17:53	comment	added	chrisaycock		The history contest isn't for another two days. :)
May 18, 2012 at 17:40	history	edited	xralf	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 2 characters in body
May 18, 2012 at 16:56	comment	added	user53141		They aren't as related as often thought, and the issue is muddied by the fact that C++ implemented classes by laying syntactic sugar over structs containing function pointers. To further muddy the waters, C++ expanded structs to include actual method definitions and then making the `struct` keyword optional when the struct is used.
May 18, 2012 at 16:54	answer	added	user28988		timeline score: 5
May 18, 2012 at 16:50	answer	added	scarfridge		timeline score: 4
May 18, 2012 at 16:38	answer	added	Edward Strange		timeline score: 3
May 18, 2012 at 15:39	history	edited	gnat	CC BY-SA 3.0	personal stuff removed
May 18, 2012 at 15:33	history	asked	xralf	CC BY-SA 3.0