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>> In C++, you can be as high or low level as you want. Therefore C++ is ultimately better than C.
Disagree, it's worse. Because you are mixed you cannot pick when to be high and when to be low! Go use java.
>> Not languages are OO, people are.
I agree with this statement. I really meant to say it's the wrong language for high level constructs.
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I agree that in the wrong situation or in the wrong MI can cause nightmares, but is programmer error MI's fault. It is really, really, REALLY powerful if used properly and I don't think because there's the opportunity to screw things up is good enough reason to condemn it.
Besides, I'm very biased. I think every feature of C++ is the best. C++ > everything.
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I've always wondered why there's no support for multiple inheritance in C#. Has been removed for performance reasons? or just due to dumning down?
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Everything derives from object in C# hierarchies. Therefore, if MI was allowed you would automatically have a "diamond of death" each time you use it. Unless of course, all inheritance were virtual, but that would be too costly.
I think C# really misses not a full-fledged MI, but some form of mix-ins.
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Ok, that makes sense. I like the phrase "diamond of death" - I shall remember that one!
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AT the .NET Launch conference, the fellow that gave the keynote claimed that only a few people actually know how to design languages, compilers, etc. for Multiple Inheritence. They ommitted the feature for that reason.
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Well, they do have MI in C++, so I'm sure they could have asked the C++ guys something 
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Alexandru Savescu
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Alexandru Savescu wrote:
they could have asked the C++ guys something
Or Eiffel guys, or CLOS guys, or even Python guys.
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That seems to show that a few people actually know how to design languages, compilers, etc. [period]
In my mind, C# is more of a product from Microsoft than an language per say.
That is, of course, just an opinion.
I like MI because I want the language to allow me to express myself as much as I can, and there are not many interesting relationship apart from "is-a" that defines inheritance in the first place, and you find that quickly, modeling "real world objects" in OO diagram, you quickly find use for multiple inheritance!
Lets map the "problem", not the "solution" (Problem is the real world object, Solution is the "interface" coming from the computer science bag of tricks)
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It can be a good thing but in the wrong hands it can make a developers life a nightmare.
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I couldn't agree with you more!
Jerry
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