> 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.
