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- From: hhoff@cube.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: 15 Apr 1996 19:42:50 GMT
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- William D. Gooch wrote:
- > In article <4kqhit$jie@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> ozma@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com (Mike
- Zorn) writes:
- >
- > > Multiple inheritance, like Nehru jackets and the 14th Amendment
- > >(prohibition), should be thought of as a probably good idea that
- > >just never worked out.
- >
- > Gosh, hasn't this been discussed enough before? MI has
- > great value when used appropriately. Added complexity
- > and indirection in instance structures or redundant code
- > are essentially the only ways to compensate for its lack.
-
- Yeah, it's also a great way of preventing you from fixing third-party
- classes that are Broken By Design(tm).
- Some of us have *real* protocols & forwarding, and get by great without
- unnecessary code bloat or weirdo design. MI - thanks, but: No Thanks!
- ObJava: no MI is a definite plus and shows that at least -some- brains are
- at work inside Sun.
-
- Regards,
-
- Holger
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