Directory of Prototype-based Resources

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Prototype-based languages are classless object-oriented languages, OO without classes. Instances of objects are made by cloning other instances. Usually, these languages have only one data structure, the associative array. Such languages are very flexible during runtime, and far simpler than class-based languages. The original one was Self.

Subcategories

• Amulet
• Cecil
• Io
• JavaScript
• Lua
• Obliq
• REBOL
• Self
• Water

Resources in This Category

• Agora

  http://prog.vub.ac.be/research/agora/
  OO prototype-based, reflective language, based on only message passing, a key trait of OO languages; it allows late-binding polymorphism, the key trait making possible incremental modifying of programs. Descriptions, papers, implementations: Smalltalk, C++, Java, Scheme; MiniMix.

• Brain

  http://brain.sourceforge.net/
  High-level, pure object-oriented, prototype-based, scripting language; Smalltalk-like syntax; some features borrowed from Scheme, Self, JavaScript. [Open Source, LGPL]

• Class-based NewtonScript Programming

  http://waltersmith.us/wp-content/uploads/2005/12/class-based-NS.htm
  An article for PIE Developers magazine describing a technique for structuring a NewtonScript program using class-like objects.

• Glyphic Script, Codeworks

  http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/codeworks.html
  Language with interactive development environment, supports multiple views per object, bytecode VM; was user programming environment of EO communicator; description, PDF manuals. By Mark Lentczner.

• Mica

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/coolcc/
  Was Poe: prototype inheritance language and OO virtual machine for building network-accessible programs for multiple programmers, users, agents. Persistence and garbage collection are automatic and transparent. [Open Source, GPL]

• Prototype-based Programming

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming
  Growing article, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]

• The Slate Programming Language

  http://slashdot.org/developers/04/03/27/1627220.shtml
  Brief description with many forum comments. [Slashdot]

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