It is not broken. First read Steve Yegge's excellent article on the Universal Design Pattern to understand why prototypes are really useful and natural http://

It is not broken. First read Steve Yegge's excellent article on the Universal Design Pattern to understand why prototypes are really useful and natural http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/universal-design-pattern.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/universal-design-p... Then try to understand that prototypes are more natural in a dynamic language because they are completely dynamic. Classical inheritance is generally static. It might help using a language that has less syntactic confusion than Javascript, Lua is the best known, or Self or Io.