Tango Conference 2008 - MiniD talk by by Jarrett Billingsley.

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:21 AM, BLS <nanali at nospam-wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley schrieb:
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Peter Modzelewski
>> <peter.modzelewski at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://petermodzelewski.blogspot.com/2008/10/tango-conference-2008-minid-talk-video.html
>>> slides: http://team0xf.com/conference/minid.pdf
>>> Enjoy! :)
>>>
>>
>> I suppose I should also link to the MiniD site:
>>
>> http://dsource.org/projects/minid
>>
>> and mention that MiniD 2 is approaching a beta release :)
>>
>> The slides only scratch the surface of the language's features.  Read more
>> here:
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>> http://dsource.org/projects/minid/wiki/LanguageSpec2
>>
>> and I've started a PIL-style walkthrough here:
>>
>> http://dsource.org/projects/minid/wiki/Lang/GettingStarted
>
> Hi Jarret,
> I have'nt followed MiniD development for quit a while, Sorry. It seems to me
> that you are switching from Class instantiation to Prototype's clone()
> paradigmn. In case, and just in case ;), that I am right: Can you please
> explain: Why.
>
> TIA, Bjoern

They're simpler to implement as there is now only one type and one set
of lookup rules, and, well, it's cool.  Besides, MiniD is a dynamic
language, and if I were to make classes as dynamic as they could be,
you'd more or less end up with a prototype-based object system with an
arbitrary bifurcation between classes and their instances.  Which is
precisely what happened in the development of MD2, in fact.