Re: Will Java kill C++?

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From: Harley Davis
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 00:01

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In article <BLUME.96Apr18103856@zayin.cs.princeton.edu> blume@zayin.cs.princeton.edu (Matthias Blume) writes:

>    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.

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?

-- Harley Davis
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