I Dream of Io
I had a really weird dream yesterday: I dreamt that Kesuke Miyagi tried to convince me that classed based languages is better than prototype based. He didn't tell me straight out, of course, being all old and wise and Karate and all. Instead he showed us a way to jump, a certain way to position your feet when doing a long jump that enabled you, once you've trained for at least 30 years, to jump at least 20 yards. "Just follow this form," he said, "and you'll be able to jump like me." Naturally, when I tried, I jumped ten inches. So I interpreted that as an argument for class based languages.
In my second dream yesterday a cultist tried to convince me that prototype based languages is better than class based. I was in this magical ritual, probably trying to conjure up an old monster of some kind, when I suddenly realized that the form we used, all the things we said and such, was based on a copy and modify pattern, just as in prototype based languages. Naturally my choice fell on prototype based languages.
PS: Want to see a really cool prototype based language? Have a look at Io. It's one of the most curious and beautiful languages I've seen.
