Classes versus prototypes: Some philosophical and historical observations

JOOP - Journal of Object-Oriented Programming

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 44-50

  Taivalsaari, Antero ^a  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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