About explicit metaclasses and old experiences with them
Alan Kay
alank at wdi.disney.com
Mon Sep 14 23:30:04 UTC 1998
Steve --
You deserve a long careful answer on this question (which I don't have time
to try to construct) -- so let me just say that something between a
prototype (as say in SELF) and a class (as say in Smalltalk) would be the
best thing for most users, including children ...
Cheers,
Alan
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At 7:02 PM -0000 9/14/98, Steve Dekorte wrote:
>Wouldn't using prototypes eliminate the need for metaclasses
>and make intsantiation and initialization more understandable
>to children(and adults)?
>
>Steve
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