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From:
Joe McMahon
Date:
July 3, 2001 07:22
Subject:
Re: Anyone actually experienced with object inheritance?
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Pine.LNX.4.33.0107031019540.4870-100000@tribal.metalab.unc.edu
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Bart Schuller wrote:

> The Apple Newton was programmed in NewtonScript, a prototype-based
> language. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~schoedl/projects/NewtonScript/ seems
> like a nice overview.

NewtonScript was an excellent language; with prototype-based inheritance,
you could get an application running almost trivially.

If there was a nice way to implement this type of inheritance (as an
option, and in a module woul be fine by me), I'd highly recommend it.
Combining prototyping and Tk could be a tremendously big win.

 --- Joe M.



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