On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Brett Patterson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes. But, one final question. Was the first ever implementation of
> JavaScript designed to be object-oriented, object-based, or prototype-based?
> Thank you all.
>

Here is Brenden Eich, Javascript's creator, pontificating on the
history and genesis of javascript

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2008/04/popularity.html#more

Quote: " I'm not proud, but I'm happy that I chose Scheme-ish
first-class functions and Self-ish (albeit singular) prototypes as the
main ingredients."

So in short, Yes, it was object oriented, with prototype-based
inheritence, first class scheme like functions, and (thanks to
netscape management) Java like syntax right from the start.


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