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It's the way many OOP languages went, but it's not intrinsic to OOP.

I recall encountering Emerald in the late 1980s. Here's its 1989 paper on composition over inheritance (code reuse wise): http://www.emeraldprogramminglanguage.org/Raj_ComputerJourna...




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