From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2004-03-31T23:39:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Software Maintenance and Prototype Based Languages

il Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:19:19 +0900, Jamis Buck <jgb3@email.byu.edu> ha
scritto::

>
>I imagine most people here saw the announcement on Slashdot a few days 
>ago for "Prothon" (a prototype-based language based on Python).

I discovered it on c.l.py but from the long threads started I could
not understand what's wrong with class-based languages :)

There were people there pointing out how prototypes solved metaclasses
complication, but I rarely had problem with that complication in ruby.
I believe metaclasses in python are sort of hard to get, but not in
ruby.
And there are languages like java with no metaclasses at all, no?

Anyway, worth noting that ruby should be quoted as an ancestor of
prothon too ( words of the author) :)