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keyle on July 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why do new(ish) programming languages esch...

It's the way OOP was used from what I saw 10-20 years ago. It was all inheritance, from uni course to patterns used etc.

I've only fell into composition when I got into video game development. We saw it a bit more with Silverlight but now it's such a clear movement (composition over inheritance) that it's in my resume's motto.

raiph on July 1, 2019 [–]

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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