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- From: davis@ilog.com (Harley Davis)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 00:01:48 GMT
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- In article <BLUME.96Apr18103856@zayin.cs.princeton.edu> blume@zayin.cs.princeton.edu (Matthias Blume) writes:
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- > Perhaps you could elaborate a little more why you/they think
- > inheritance/multiple inheritance is a bad idea.
- >
- > It turns out that inheritance with overiding hasn't been successfully
- > modelled yet in any clean semantic framework. There has been some
- > progress, but usually people stop just short of adding inheritance,
- > because it messes everything up.
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- Strange how such an unclean concept can be so useful in practice. But
- what can you do with people who just keep using a tool no matter how
- many denotational semanticians say it's unfounded?
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- -- Harley Davis
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