Where did the concept of Interfaces come from?

Question

In c#, we have interfaces. Where did these come from? They didn\'t exist in c++.

Answer 1

I was under the impression that the first formalized concept of interfaces came from Objective-C (called "protocols"). I can tell you for sure that Java at least got the idea from Objective-C, so it wasn't Java that had interfaces first.

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