Re: [WSG] JavaScript clarification please

[Anthony Ziebell]

Luke, Discrediting c++ has nothing to do with the question "Is _javascript_ object-orientated?". With that, and in closing, I would like to point out that my comments were based on the actual question - asking if _javascript_ were object-oriented, not if it has objects. Prototype has objects, and it is of my opinion that _javascript_ is more prototype than anything else. Thanks, Anthony. Luke Hoggett wrote: Indeed, as Alan Kay inventor of Smalltalk and OOP said "I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." cheers L liorean wrote: 2008/10/24 James Jeffery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The language itself is NOT object-orientated, its proto-type based. It can be used in an OOP fashion, but this is not true Object Orientation as it is in languages such as C++. Two serious problems with this statement: First, the prototype system is in fact one of several ways of implementing inheritance in OOP languages. Second, you're assuming C++ is object oriented. It's one of several languages that is known to be OOP by programmers while in actuality it's core is not OOP. Sure, it's possible to use C++ for object oriented programming, but C++ allows doing things that actually break object orientation. You can't do that in more OOP languages, for example _javascript_. C++ and Java are known as object oriented languages, but they are not the ultimate in object orientation. There are plenty of languages that are more object oriented. But they use classical inheritance, and because _javascript_ does not some people have got into their heads that Classical inheritance == OOP which means JavaScritp != OOP. But that's a misconception. ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************