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Was not sure what to expect when I first saw the title. It was a short documentary about the programming language Self highlighting some of its major features l
by arocks 13y ago
Was not sure what to expect when I first saw the title. It was a short documentary about the programming language Self highlighting some of its major features like modelessness and prototype based object oriented programming. The latter part was especially interesting to me because Javascript's OOP design was heavily influenced by Self. The prototype based system seems very powerful and much more flexible than traditional class based object oriented systems.
- masklinn 13y ago> Javascript's OOP design was heavily influenced by Self. In roughly the same way Java's OOP design was heavily influenced by Smalltalk: take the basic idea, misunderstand it, forget to include most of what make it good then sprinkle some crap on top to make it worse.
- gngeal 13y agoWas not sure what to expect when I first saw the title. I expected something along the lines of Erlang: The Movie. (I'm also surprised that there are still people who don't know about Self.)