[self-interest] Re: Prototypes in Self And JavaScript
Russell Allen
mail at russell-allen.com
Fri Jul 31 02:36:35 UTC 2009
"Self is about going from specific and then grouping things later under
general labels" - this sounds about right :)
If you can scroll up and down using two fingers on your macbook then try
it in Self 4.4 - it might work. You don't need the latest Macbook, I
don't think.
- Russell
brassplume wrote:
>
>
> Hi Russell,
>
> Thanks for the tip. 4.4 it is. No trackpad, unfortunately. My
> MacBookPro is from 2007. No worries, though.
>
> Thanks for connecting the dots about Lively Kernel. I saw something
> about that about a year ago or more on Squeak News. I need to look at
> that.
>
> I've been reading some papers and started on Chris's blog. The wiki
> page says Self is a protest against proceeding from taxonomy to
> behavior. To me that says its a protest against going from the general
> to the specific. Self is about going from specific and then grouping
> things later under general labels. Organizing Programs Without Clases
> uses the word flexible repeatedly. I guess that comes from the lower
> level of granularity used in Self with the key unit of construction
> being the slot.
>
> It's a cool summer project.
>
> Chris
>
>
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