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Thanks for that. In my mind I've been calling C++, C#, etc. "class-based" programming since the design/programming phase is really focussed on classes. I've not

Thanks for that. In my mind I've been calling C++, C#, etc. "class-based" programming since the design/programming phase is really focussed on classes. I've not much experience with prototype-based programming other than the occasional blurb. This is a nice intro.

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protomyth 14y ago
If you have the time, go look at an explanation of NewtonScript then Self. NewtonScript takes the concepts of Self and created a pretty nice little language that is a little more accessible than Self (unless you know Smalltalk, then go with Self first). I like prototype-based languages and really wish that NewtonScript had a little better syntax. On the other hand, I have never been fond of Javascript and don't know why. http://selflanguage.org http://selflanguage.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewtonScript http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewtonScript and http://waltersmith.us/wp-content/uploads/2005/12/OOPSLA95.pdf http://waltersmith.us/wp-content/uploads/2005/12/OOPSLA95.pd...
- stan_rogers 14y ago
  Cognitive dissonance, likely. It doesn't look like what it is, no matter which part of it you're using at the time. Its selfish features aren't Self, its speech impediment isn't really a Lisp, its coffee-flavouring isn't Java... No matter which door you open, you get a preliminary sense of déja vu, then realise that you haven't actually been there before; it's just something that reminds you of something else. It takes a while to settle into JS mode, where the language is just what it is, and not "sort of like X, but completely different". (Once I'm there, I like to stay there—but there's always something else to do that drags me into another language, and when I come back, I experience the same cycle process again.)
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> This is a nice intro. ... with a misleading title since it's about "Prototypical inheritance".

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protomyth 14y ago

If you have the time, go look at an explanation of NewtonScript then Self. NewtonScript takes the concepts of Self and created a pretty nice little language that is a little more accessible than Self (unless you know Smalltalk, then go with Self first). I like prototype-based languages and really wish that NewtonScript had a little better syntax. On the other hand, I have never been fond of Javascript and don't know why. http://selflanguage.org http://selflanguage.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewtonScript http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewtonScript and http://waltersmith.us/wp-content/uploads/2005/12/OOPSLA95.pdf http://waltersmith.us/wp-content/uploads/2005/12/OOPSLA95.pd...

stan_rogers 14y ago
Cognitive dissonance, likely. It doesn't look like what it is, no matter which part of it you're using at the time. Its selfish features aren't Self, its speech impediment isn't really a Lisp, its coffee-flavouring isn't Java... No matter which door you open, you get a preliminary sense of déja vu, then realise that you haven't actually been there before; it's just something that reminds you of something else. It takes a while to settle into JS mode, where the language is just what it is, and not "sort of like X, but completely different". (Once I'm there, I like to stay there—but there's always something else to do that drags me into another language, and when I come back, I experience the same cycle process again.)

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> This is a nice intro. ... with a misleading title since it's about "Prototypical inheritance".