I don’t like inheritance in Java and now I know how to explain why
June 19th, 2009
I tend to dislike very very much class inheritance in Java. However, until today, it was not easy to explain why.
I’ve always said that beginners do a lot of duplication when they code, medium programmers solve this problem using class inheritance, good programmers find every possible way to abstract even more and get rid of class inheritance, sometimes even for the price of a small duplication (due mainly to java limitations).
If you search keyword extends in your code base, how many times doest it appear compared to keyword class? Read more…