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spacemanmatt on July 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why do new(ish) programming languages esch...

Interfaces are inheritance, just without code. But interfaces definitely serve at least one role of an abstract base class.

Skinney on July 1, 2019 [–]

Maybe. But then even FP languages are considered OOP, as most of those languages have records and interfaces.

nullwasamistake on July 1, 2019 | [–]

Yes I agree. Once you have interfaces with default implementations especially, you have non-nested OOP

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