Reviews for The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

The average rating for The Art of the Metaobject Protocol based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-01-22 00:00:00 Brian Mccartney It's unbelievable how deep they went exploring OOP's fundamentals. It was an herculean effort to provide an enormous amount of features allowing extensibility to every aspect of the language. The book is very clear and objective, it requires attention but is very instructive. One of the best books I had ever read about OOP, but definitively not suitable for beginners. The biggest question that remains: is that kind of power usable in a regular team? There is so many powers provided by this protocol that seems to be dangerous, you need a team that understands every concept presented and its effects, this sounds very not applicable into "real" projects.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-11-11 00:00:00 Krista Coleman A few years ago, I was interested in MOPs due to Perl's Moose OO framework. I took a look at this book and gave up after a few pages as "way over my head" After a year or so of reading Lisp, I was interested again in MOPs, and after reading Keene's OO book by way of intro, moved onto this. At long last, I was able to understand all the jargon and code samples. As a result, after all this time I finally *got* what a MOP is and why you may want one. In fact, it's such a brilliant and simple idea I'm amazed every language doesn't have one. At least, so it seems after investing a year in the foundations :) Really worthwhile book, but you *have* to have at least some common lisp and CLOS knowledge to make it understandable.