It's a similar story with the Self programming language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programmi

It's a similar story with the Self programming language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language). There are many software engineers and computer scientists who never heard of Self, but Self's prototype-based approach to object-oriented programming had a major influence on JavaScript, and a lot of the work done on making fast virtual machines for Self made it in the Java Virtual Machine.