Simon Willison’s Weblog

The Universal Design Pattern. Steve Yegge presents a small book on key/value pairs and prototypal inheritance. “I call it the Universal design pattern because it is (by far) the best known solution to the problem of designing open-ended systems, which in turn translates to long-lived systems.”

# 20th October 2008, 11:13 pm / design-patterns, keyvaluepairs, programming, prototypal-inheritance, steve-yegge

Prototype based programming in python. Neat implementation of JavaScript-style prototype inheritance in Python.

# 11th September 2008, 5:50 pm / javascript, prototypal-inheritance, python

Transitioning from Java Classes to JavaScript Prototypes. Peter Michaux shows how JavaScript’s prototypal inheritance can run rings around traditional Java-style classes once you figure out how to take advantage of it.

# 10th February 2008, 3:10 pm / inheritance, java, javascript, object-oriented-programming, pete-michaux, prototypal-inheritance