[Haskell-cafe] How to fulfill the "code-reuse" destiny of OOP?

Magnus Therning magnus at therning.org
Fri Oct 30 04:22:49 EDT 2009


On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Martijn van Steenbergen
<martijn at van.steenbergen.nl> wrote:
> Magnus Therning wrote:
>>
>> IIRC James Gosling once said that if he were to design Java today he would
>> leave out classes.  I suppose partly due to many of the issues with "data
>> inheritance".
>
> This sounds interesting. Can you link us to an article, please?

I actually managed to find it again :-)

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-2003/jw-0801-toolbox.html

It seems I was wrong in my assumption about "data inheritance",
"implementation inheritance" is just as evil.

/M

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