> On 02 Jul 2016, at 15:05 , David McClain <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> After having been comfortably isolated in a Lisp atmosphere for more than 20 
> years, I’m finding myself being dragged into a “new” world centering on 
> Javascript and prototype based programming. It feels like I’m being dragged 
> back by more than those 20 years, but in an effort to overcome the resistance 
> tendencies of aging, I thought I’d delve a bit more deeply into this realm.
> 
> I’ve done some investigating and found the genesis in Self. But really, this 
> seems like a trivial kind of pursuit for Lisp. I am aware of the new 
> difficulties in making fast systems with the lack of classes, and troubles 
> deciding inheritance of behaviors. 
> 
> Does anyone have some interesting insights and pointers to papers regarding 
> prototype programming in Lisp?
> 
> - DM

There's KR: http://www.cliki.net/KR <http://www.cliki.net/KR> - this is a 
prototype-based object system that used to be part of a graphics toolkit, but 
now appears to have  been turned into a separate package. 

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