Self
<language> A small, dynamically typed object-oriented language, based
purely on prototypes and delegation. Self was developed by the Self Group at Sun
Microsystems Laboratories, Inc. and Stanford University. It is an experimental
exploratory programming language.
Release 2.0 introduces full source-level debugging of optimised code, adaptive
optimisation to shorten compile pauses, lightweight threads within Self, support
for dynamically linking foreign functions, changing programs within Self and the
ability to run the experimental Self graphical browser under OpenWindows.
Designed for expressive power and malleability, Self combines a pure,
prototype-based object model with uniform access to state and behaviour. Unlike
other languages, Self allows objects to inherit state and to change their
patterns of inheritance dynamically. Self's customising compiler can generate
very efficient code compared to other dynamically-typed object-oriented
languages.
Version: 3.0 runs on Sun-3 (no optimiser) and Sun-4.
Home.
["Self: The Power of Simplicity", David Ungar
<ungar@sun.eng.com> et al, SIGPLAN Notices 22(12):227-242, OOPSLA '87,
Dec 1987].
(1999-06-09)
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