Absolutely seminal paper. In 1997 Alan Kay called the book by the same authors, The Art of the Metaobject Protocol: "the best book anybody's written in ten year

Absolutely seminal paper. In 1997 Alan Kay called the book by the same authors, The Art of the Metaobject Protocol: "the best book anybody's written in ten years." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_the_Metaobject_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_the_Metaobject_Prot... I strongly feel that if you don't know MOP and CLOS, you shouldn't be allowed to call yourself an OO expert. EDIT: And how much I do miss when Dr. Dobbs was actually good: http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/lisp-classes-in-the-metaobject-protocol/200000266 http://www.drdobbs.com/parallel/lisp-classes-in-the-metaobje...