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markroseman
on April 30, 2021
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Inheritance was invented as a performance hack
Off topic, but one of my CS professors was part of the original Simula group. Had long sinced moved onto more formalized approaches, i.e., denotational semantics. On more than one occasion was heard to say "the only good object is a dead object."
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