Why is there no multiple inheritance in Java, but implementing multiple interfaces is allowed?

Question

Java doesn\'t allow multiple inheritance, but it allows implementing multiple interfaces. Why?

Answer 1

Java does not support multiple inheritance , multipath and hybrid inheritance because of ambiguity problem:

 Scenario for multiple inheritance: Let us take class A , class B , class C. class A has alphabet(); method , class B has also alphabet(); method. Now class C extends A, B and we are creating object to the subclass i.e., class C , so  C ob = new C(); Then if you want call those methods ob.alphabet(); which class method takes ? is class A method or class B method ?  So in the JVM level ambiguity problem occurred. Thus Java does not support multiple inheritance.

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