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Sparkles of inheritance can be good. I use them sometimes to aid functional combinators.



Right. I'm not saying inheritance should never be used; just that it can be a distraction for learning what OOP is really about. If I were to teach OOP in Java to new students, I might start out just focusing on interfaces.




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