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astrange on May 17, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling

> I think it's incredible with hindsight how Java countered many of the mid 90s C++ problems, especially by avoiding multiple inheritance.

This is because Java is based on an older language called Objective-C that doesn't have multiple inheritance :)

It's not based on C++, that's just the other OO language from the era people usually think of.

fidotron on May 17, 2025 [–]

> This is because Java is based on an older language called Objective-C that doesn't have multiple inheritance :)

No it's not, certainly not any more than it's "based" on Smalltalk.

astrange on May 17, 2025 | [–]

https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html

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