theregister.com/2023/09/01/web_assembly_wasm_column

Faré gave a talk “Prototypes: Object-Orientation, Functionally” to our Toronto Lisp Group Sept. 5, 2023.

My personal agenda is finding the “atoms” of programming (simplicity, clarity). I think that Faré nailed the questions of what is OO, what are Classes, what are Prototypes?

github.com/metareflection/poof

The slides from last night are github.com/metareflection/poof/blob/main/poof-slides-2023.rkt . With the caveat that the slides and talk are WIP.

30 LOC to implement Prototypes (and Classes) in any language that supports first class functions.

The Development of the C Language by Dennis M. Ritchie

The C programming language was devised in the early 1970s as a system implementation language for the nascent Unix operating system. Derived from the typeless language BCPL, it evolved a type structure; created on a tiny machine as a tool to improve a meager programming environment, it has become one of the dominant languages of today. This paper studies its evolution.

cm.bell-labs.co/who/dmr/chist.html

For fans of Bret Victor’s “Inventing on Principle”, it only took a decade:

youtube.com/watch?v=tqx3i_-Qvw4&t=885s (not affiliated)