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ECMAScript (more popularly known by the name ``JavaScript'') is the language of
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the web. In the decades past, it has been used to augment web pages with trivial
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features and obnoxious gimmicks. Today, the language is used to write
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full-featured web applications that rival modern desktop software in nearly
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every regard and has even expanded to create desktop and server software. With
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increased usage, there is a desire to apply more familiar development paradigms
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while continuing to take advantage of the language's incredibly flexible
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functional and prototypal models. Of all of the modern paradigms, one of the
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most influential and widely adopted is Classical Object-Oriented programming, as
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represented in languages such as Java, C++, Python, Perl, PHP and others.
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ECMAScript, as an object-oriented language, contains many features familiar to
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Classical OO developers. However, certain features remain elusive. This article
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will detail the development of a classical object-oriented framework for
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ECMAScript, ease.js, which aims to address these issues by augmenting
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ECMAScript's prototype model to allow the creation of familiar class-like
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objects. This implementation enforces encapsulation and provides features that
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most Classical OO developers take for granted until the time that ECMAScript
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implements these features itself.\footnote{There was discussion of including
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classes in ECMAScript 6 ``Harmony'', however it is not within the specification
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at the time of writing. At that time, the framework could be used to transition
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to ECMAScript's model, should the developer choose to do so.}
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