Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!newsfeed.tip.net!news.seinf.abb.se!eua.ericsson.se!erinews.ericsson.se!cnn.exu.ericsson.se!convex!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!news.mindlink.net!vanbc.wimsey.com!usenet From: Craig Johannsen Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.python,comp.lang.sather,comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: Rapid Prototyping + statically-typed OOPLs? Date: 18 Jul 1995 18:22:44 GMT Organization: Online at Wimsey Information Services Lines: 5 Message-ID: <3ugu5k$g9j@wolfe.wimsey.com> References: <805548287snz@galacta.demon.co.uk> <3u3cdm$pu1@noc.tor.hookup.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm007.bby.wis.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.object:33713 comp.lang.beta:472 comp.lang.c++:129849 comp.lang.eiffel:9399 comp.lang.python:5098 comp.lang.sather:1970 comp.lang.smalltalk:24559 In his new book "Object Success" (Prentice Hall, 1995), Bertrand Meyer presents a very thorough discussion of the different meanings of the term "prototype" and some good advice as to which are desirable for which purposes. See Chapter 4, pages 61-71.