Study of delegation and of its possible applications.

Collaborations with Pierre Cointe, Jacques Malenfant. See Daniel Bardou's thesis.

Prototype-based languages: From a new taxonomy to constructive proposals and their validation - ACM OOPSLA'92 - postscript,
Propositions pour un nouveau modèle d'objets dans les langages à prototypes - LMO'95 - (french pdf),
Split objects: a disciplined use of delegation within objects - ACM OOPSLA'96 - pdf,
Les Langages à Prototypes - CHAPTER-BOOK-INRIA'99 - pdf,
Classifying prototype-based programming languages- CHAPTER-BOOK-SPRINGER'99 - pdf

Operational classification of Classless OO languages.

Prototalk is a Smalltalk operational framework to build and experiment with classless object-oriented languages developed in 1992 (see OOpsla'92 paper) and ported in Squeak in 2003 by

Alexandre Bergel, Christophe Dony, and Stéphane Ducasse. Prototalk: an environment for teaching, understanding, designing and prototyping object-oriented languages. In Proceedings of 12th ESUG Smalltalk International Conference, pages 107-130, KhÃ¶ten, Germany, September 2004. PDF

To download Prototalk.