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		raspasov 31 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When did people favor composition over inheritance... When someone realized that the inheritance glass castle is doomed to always get shattered upon contact with the real world. Inheritance might be OK for formally finite domains but I can’t envision other cases where it should be favored.

cturner 31 days ago [–]

Do you dislike type inheritance? Or only implementation inheritance? My view is that type inheritance is incredibly useful, both for single system programming, and rpc. Whereas implementation inheritance creates brittle systems.

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