Re: The Foundation of OO (XDb)

On 14 Jun 2002 03:57:20 GMT, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne_at_acm.org> wrote:

>A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Thaddeus L Olczyk <olczyk_at_interaccess.com> wrote:
>> 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.)
>
>There _are_ versions of Self running on Linux and atop JVM.
Ok. I'm not so hot about Self running on top of a JVM, but if you know of a link to a linux or Windows version, I would love to see it. The only thing I ever find is the Sun version. Received on Fri Jun 14 2002 - 06:38:18 CEST