[self-interest] Mixed Environment

[Gilad Bracha]

At 12:50 PM 10/19/00, Dan Rozenfarb wrote:
>Hello,
>I am Dan Rozenfarb from Argentina.
>In my master thesis work I have implemented Self-like objects in Squeak with
>the purpose of having an environment with class-based and class-less object
>mixed.  It is supposed to allow exploratory and incremental programming,
>letting you evolute from class-less objects towards a more (mature?)
>arrangment with hierarchies of classes.
>In writing the "related work" section I looked for others environments for
>comparison purposes and found no one.
>Do you know of any language/environment which combines those features?

Take a look at the Darwin project. It is an extension of Java supporting a 
form of delegation, so you get both classes and delegation.

http://javalab.cs.uni-bonn.de/research/darwin/darwin_eng.html



Cheers,  Gilad

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Gilad Bracha
Computational Theologist
Sun Java Software
http://java.sun.com/people/gbracha/