Timeline for Interesting Programming Exercises to Teach Inheritance?
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| Feb 15, 2022 at 5:48 | comment | added | Victor Eijkhout | I haven't been part of the C++ community long enough to have seen a tide turn. Inheritance definitely has its uses. In my field of scientific computing there are enough packages that use it. Maybe it only comes into play at a certain level of complexity. But yes, I really dislike the person/animal/whatever toy examples. From a taxonomical point of view they may make sense but not from a programming point where an object is a "packet of behaviors" as someone (you?) put it. | |
| Feb 15, 2022 at 4:21 | comment | added | Rushi | If you'd keep nothing but first n last sentence you'd get not just my +1 but a bounty as well 😅. More seriously everyone seems to agree (almost) that all the famous inheritance egs are broken. But then hedge about saying that. (you come closest). So I guess the real question : When did the tide turn? And can you situate it in the mouths of some "big OO guy" like Stroustrup, B Meyer, Booch etc?? Closest I get is "Accelerated C++" saying «Forget all the fancy C++ . Just use STL. Write real significant programs to a flying start» | |
| Feb 14, 2022 at 18:26 | history | answered | Victor Eijkhout | CC BY-SA 4.0 |