Position paper at the Objects and classification: a natural convergence Workshop. 14th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2000), Cannes, France, june 2000.

Abstract:

Prototype-based languages have been proposed since the late 1980s a an alternative approach to the more common class-based languages in the field of object-oriented programming. Indeed a prototype-based language is mainly characterized as being class-less. How could then techniques generally developped for hierarchical organization of classes apply to such a language? Which problems would such an application raise, and which benefits could it bring? This paper briefly discuss these issues ...

BibTex reference: 

@Misc{Bard00a,
author = {Daniel Bardou},
title = {{Inheritance Hierarchy Automatic (Re)organization and Prototype-Based Languages}},
month = jun,
year = 2000,
note = {Position paper at the Objects and classification: a natural convergence Workshop. 14th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2000), Cannes, France}
}

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