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		junon on April 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Inheritance was invented as a performance hack Because some people understand "is a" better than "has a".

squiggleblaz on April 30, 2021 [–]

That's just a restatement of the original problem. Inheritance just is "is a" and composition just is "has a", so if a person doesn't understand why someone would find inheritance more intuititve than composition, they wouldn't understand why a person finds "is a" more intuitive than "has a".

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