A Self Bibliography

Self has been the subject of a substantial number of academic papers over the years.

Retrospective

• Programming as an Experience: The Inspiration for Self

Language

• Self: The Power of Simplicity
• Parents are Shared Parts: Inheritance and Encapsulation in Self
• Organizing Programs Without Classes

Implementation

• Object Storage and Inheritance for Self
• Customization: Optimizing Compiler Technology for Self, a Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Programming Language
• An Efficient Implementation of Self, a Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Language Based on Prototypes
• Iterative Type Analysis and Extended Message Splitting: Optimizing Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Programs
• Making Pure Object-Oriented Languages Practical
• Optimizing Dynamically-Typed Object-Oriented Programming Languages with Polymorphic Inline Caches
• The Design and Implementation of the Self Compiler, an Optimizing Compiler for Object-Oriented Programming Languages
• Debugging Optimized Code with Dynamic Deoptimization
• Object, Message, and Performance: How They Coexist in Self
• A Fast Write Barrier for Generational Garbage Collectors
• Optimizing Dynamically-Dispatched Calls with Run-Time Type Feedback
• Adaptive optimization for Self: Reconciling High Performance with Exploratory Programming
• A Third-Generation Self Implementation: Reconciling Responsiveness with Performance

• Do object-oriented languages need special hardware support? (ECOOP ‘95), Urs Hölzle and David Ungar

User Interface

• Animation: From Cartoons to the User Interface
• Experiencing Self Objects: An Object-Based Artificial Reality
• The Use-Mention Perspective on Programming for the Interface
• Getting Close to Objects: Object-Focused Programming Environments
• The Self-4.0 User Interface: Manifesting a System-wide Vision of Concreteness, Uniformity, and Flexibility
• Directness and Liveness in the Morphic User Interface Construction Environment

Type inference and application extraction

• The Cartesian Product Algorithm
• Type Inference of Self: Analysis of Objects with Dynamic and Multiple Inheritance
• Constraint-Based Type Inference and Parametric Polymorphism
• Sifting Out the Gold: Delivering Compact Applications From an Exploratory Object-Oriented Environment

• Type Feedback vs. Type Inference: A Comparison of Optimization Techniques for Object-Oriented Languages (OOPSLA‘95), Ole Agesen and Urs Hölzle

Other

• Integrating Independently-Developed Components in Object-Oriented Languages
• Mango - A Parser Generator for Self