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International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference on Perspectives of System Informatics

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Intersecting Classes and Prototypes

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The object-oriented programming language design space consists of class-based and prototype-based languages. Both families have been shown to posses their advantages and disadvantages. Hybrid languages featuring both prototype-based and class-based mechanisms have been proposed as a solution. Unfortunately these languages not only unify the advantages but also the disadvantages of both families. We propose a more intersectional point of view and propose a language that inherits the advantages but shuns the disadvantages of both families.

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  1. Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Wolfgang De Meuter, Theo D’Hondt & Jessie Dedecker

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  1. Technische Universität München, Germany

    Manfred Broy

  2. A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia

    Alexandre V. Zamulin

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De Meuter, W., D’Hondt, T., Dedecker, J. (2004). Intersecting Classes and Prototypes. In: Broy, M., Zamulin, A.V. (eds) Perspectives of System Informatics. PSI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2890. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39866-0_5

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