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Re:Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984) by musicale on Friday August 12, 2022 @12:55AM (#32434846)
I suspect Self and NewtonScript may have helped to popularize prototype-based OOP before JavaScript came around.

And of course Self's JIT/VM evolved into HotSpot and probably influenced most future VMs including JavaScript.

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