To understand the inspiration for the object model see the original work done by Ian Piumarta.

*Slides for the presentation given at DLS 2006* http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-06/program/media/IanPiumarta_...

*Article published in the 1st International Workshop on Self-Sustaining Systems 2008*_ _Open, Extensible Object Models http://piumarta.com/software/cola/objmodel2.pdf_

_*Extension proposed to support prototype-based object models*_ http://piumarta.com/software/cola/prototypes.html __ _*Source code* http://www.piumarta.com/software/id-objmodel/

*Presentation given at Standford, "Building your own dynamic language"*

Duration: 1h15

The presentation covers more than just the aforementioned object model and provides an interesting point of view on every component of a dynamic language implementation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn7kTPbW6QQ

Discussion about objects starts at 17m25 and ends roughly at 33m30._ _ Erick