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natrius on June 30, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: JavaScript Prototypes Made Easy

I don't know much about this, but I've heard Self mentioned as the prototypical prototypical language many times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language)

tikhonj on June 30, 2012 [–]

It's the language where the idea came from originally. It's basically the Smalltalk of prototype-based OO :).

Here's a nice paper about it: http://ranger.uta.edu/~nystrom/courses/cse3302-fa10/selfPowe...

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