Self is an object-oriented programming language based on the concept of prototypes. It was used mainly as an experimental test system for language design in the 1980s and 1990s. In 2006, Self was still being developed as part of the Klein project, which was a Self virtual machine written fully in Self. The latest major version is 4.3, which was released in July 2006. As of 2007, the Klein project is no longer active.
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Self is an object-oriented programming language based on the concept of prototypes. It was used mainly as an experimental test system for language design in the 1980s and 1990s. In 2006, Self was still being developed as part of the Klein project, which was a Self virtual machine written fully in Self. The latest major version is 4.3, which was released in July 2006. As of 2007, the Klein project is no longer active.
Several just-in-time compilation techniques were pioneered and improved in Self research as they were required to allow a very high level object oriented language perform at up to half the speed of optimized C. These techniques were later deployed for Java's HotSpot VM.
Self was designed mostly by David Ungar and Randall Smith in 1986 while working at Xerox PARC. Their objective was to push forward the state of the art in object-oriented programming language research, once Smalltalk-80 was released by the labs and began to be taken seriously by the industry. They moved to...
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