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Explain prototypal inheritance in JavaScript. How does it differ from classical inheritance?

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Prototypal inheritance is JavaScript's mechanism for objects to inherit properties and methods from other objects. Every object has an internal link to another object called its prototype. When you access a property on an object, JavaScript first looks at the object itself.

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