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> prototypes instead of classes

Maybe the author picked that one as being in the lineage of JavaScript?




It is absolutely reasonable to group Self and Javascript together for that reasons, sure. I just don't think even that is sufficient reason to consider Self the "ur-language". If he'd created a separate category for prototype-base OO, Self would belong there, though.




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