Quote: use concrete prototypes instead of classes; otherwise, need to design and implement an abstract class before creating an object

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the emphasis on classes in the programmer's interface … designing a new object, one must first move … it, rather than remaining at one level, incrementally … An alternative suggested in this paper is [to use] … prototypes rather than classes. A prototype is a … classes.   Google-1   Google-2

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