My work in JavaScript and Ajax programming has stimulated a renewed interest in prototypal inheritance. Can anyone recommend any good books on the subject? In particular, books that deal with languages that predate JavaScript. This seems to be a very poorly documented subject matter, which is why I'm asking here.
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Steve Yegge wrote an essay on the prototypical inheritance pattern. It also now includes further reading references.
Avi
2009-01-24 19:51:05
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You should also read about the Self programming lanaguge, look at Self at Sourceforge, and follow the links from the Wikipedia page on prototype-based languages.
Charlie Martin
2009-01-24 23:32:47
Good news. Looks like Self has a new website and has moved the source to GitHub (my favorite place to read code).http://selflanguage.orghttp://github.com/russellallen/self
dshaw
2010-03-18 01:47:18