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Article #264Re: Will Java kill C++?
From: Holger Hoffstaette
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 19:42
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 19:42
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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 -- ___ /\__\ Holger Hoffstätte net: hhoff@cube.de (MIME, NeXT, PGP) \/__/ Cube Informationssysteme GmbH vox: (+49)0711-90669-0 (or -11) [kju:b] Stuttgart, Germany fax: (+49)0711-90669-16
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