[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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