On 13 Jun 2002 22:33:46 GMT, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne_at_acm.org>
wrote:
>
>The characteristic language involving this sort of thing is Self.
><http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/labs/oocsb/self/release/Self-4.0/Tutorial/>
>
> "The Self language doesn't have any classes. When we want a new
> object, we find an existing one and copy it. We can then change the
> copy, safe in the knowledge that we have not affected anything
> else."
>
>But note that this means that Self _rejects_ the notion of "classes."
>It being an object-oriented system, that means that "classes" cannot
>be an intrinsic thing to OO.
Last time I looked the only platform that Self runs on is
SunOS/Solaris. IMHO that makes it unworthy of mention.
( In other words, if it's so great why is it only accessible to a
handfull of porogrammers.)
Received on Thu Jun 13 2002 - 22:10:27 CDT
