Seems like 30 years ago. (Because it was?) He was busy, I was an interruption. But he was gracious abt it. I recall I was a lot more interested in tail-call elimination, at the time, than he was.
Self was seminal in two ways: prototypes instead of classes influenced Javascript, and code splitting presaged perhaps the most important JIT technique.
We might have been better off today if Eich had just picked up Self instead of throwing together Javascript. But honestly I don't know either well enough to say.
Self was seminal in two ways: prototypes instead of classes influenced Javascript, and code splitting presaged perhaps the most important JIT technique.
We might have been better off today if Eich had just picked up Self instead of throwing together Javascript. But honestly I don't know either well enough to say.