PrototypeBasedLanguages

Languages with objects but not classes.

Examples :

• SelfLanguage

• Javascript, wrrlds most misunderstood programming language : http://www.crockford.com/javascript/javascript.html

• http://www.dekorte.com/Proto/Chart.html

• Manageability comment : http://www.manageability.org/blog/archive/20030706%23isithightimeto/view http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/prototype-based-programming/view, http://www.manageability.org/blog/archive/20030706%23isithightimeto/view

• Teaching OO with emphasis on objects : http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=6771

In a sense, prototype languages which deny the "class-instance" are denying a clean total abstraction. They're more like FractionalAbstraction.

Is that really true? Surely they just move the abstraction to runtime rather than compile time? – AdrianHoward

So see also OnAbstraction, DoesAbstractionScale

See also :

• ProgrammingLanguages

• ProgrammingStuff

CategoryAbstraction, CategoryProgramming