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10th February 2008 - Link Blog

Transitioning from Java Classes to JavaScript Prototypes. Peter Michaux shows how JavaScript’s prototypal inheritance can run rings around traditional Java-style classes once you figure out how to take advantage of it.

Posted 10th February 2008 at 3:10 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 10th February 2008.

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