What are the advantages that prototype based OO has over class based OO?
Why is class based OO so popular instead of prototype based OO? Do they teach the latter in schools? Though Javascript is prototype based, most people use it mostly functionally, or via frameworks that try to emulate a class based system. I know that Sun has had some research on Self - is there any other source of knowledge on prototype based oo? preferably something that is accessible for self learned. I found a book that contains published papers: Prototype-Based Programming: Concepts, Languages and Applications Has anyone read it? -- So I gave the bounty for the answer that gave me most.