Comments on: The clones strike back http://programming-musings.org/2006/03/15/the-clones-strike-back/ random thoughts on programming and programming languages Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:12:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Self awareness « programming musings http://programming-musings.org/2006/03/15/the-clones-strike-back/#comment-2384 Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:58:50 +0000 http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2006/03/15/the-clones-strike-back/#comment-2384 [...] I’ve mentioned Self, the flagship of prototype based programming, a couple of times before. Not that i have, right now, much more to say about this very interesting paradigm and this particular implementation, which its creators describe (better than i could) in the following terms: The Self system attempts to integrate intellectual and non-intellectual aspects of programming to create an overall experience. The language semantics, user interface, and implementation each help create this integrated experience. The language semantics embed the programmer in a uniform world of simple ob jects that can be modified without appealing to definitions of abstractions. In a similar way, the graphical interface puts the user into a uniform world of tangible objects that can be directly manipulated and changed without switching modes. The implementation strives to support the world-of-objects illusion by minimizing perceptible pauses and by providing true source-level semantics without sac rificing performance. As a side benefit, it encourages factoring. Although we see areas that fall short of the vision, on the whole, the language, interface, and im plementation conspire so that the Self programmer lives and acts in a consistent and malleable world of objects. (From Programming as an Experience: The Inspiration for Self) [...]

]]> By: Chrono Cr@cker http://programming-musings.org/2006/03/15/the-clones-strike-back/#comment-121 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:03:26 +0000 http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2006/03/15/the-clones-strike-back/#comment-121 What advantages does IO really offer today? There are so many languages anyways…..

]]> By: chris http://programming-musings.org/2006/03/15/the-clones-strike-back/#comment-119 Thu, 16 Mar 2006 04:21:34 +0000 http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2006/03/15/the-clones-strike-back/#comment-119 Yes. Javascript is a prototype-based language.

]]> By: bybitsandbytes http://programming-musings.org/2006/03/15/the-clones-strike-back/#comment-118 Thu, 16 Mar 2006 02:06:09 +0000 http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2006/03/15/the-clones-strike-back/#comment-118 Would’nt JavaScript fall in the same category as a prototype-based language?
e.g.
person = new Object()
person.name = “Tim Scarfe”
person.height = “6Ft”

person.run = function() {
this.state = “running”
this.speed = “4ms^-1″
}

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