optimised code, adaptive optimisation to shorten compile
within Self and the ability to run the experimental Self
expressive power and malleability, Self combines a pure,
prototype-based object model with uniform access to state
and behaviour. Unlike other languages, Self allows objects to
inherit state and to change their patterns of inheritance
dynamically. Self's customising compiler can generate very
efficient code compared to other dynamically-typed
object-oriented languages.
Version: 3.0 runs on
Sun-3 (no optimiser) and
Sun-4.
["Self: The Power of Simplicity", David Ungar
OOPSLA '87, Dec 1987].
(1999-06-09)