Is Inheritance really needed?

Question

I must confess I\'m somewhat of an OOP skeptic. Bad pedagogical and laboral experiences with object orientation didn\'t help. So I converted into a fervent believer in Visua

Answer 1

Really really short answer: No. Inheritance is not needed because only byte code is truly needed. But obviously, byte code or assemble is not a practically way to write your program. OOP is not the only paradigm for programming. But, I digress.

I went to college for computer science in the early 2000s when inheritance (is a), compositions (has a), and interfaces (does a) were taught on an equal footing. Because of this, I use very little inheritance because it is often suited better by composition. This was stressed because many of the professors had seen bad code (along with what you have described) because of abuse of inheritance.

Regardless of creating a language with or without inheritances, can you create a programming language which prevents bad habits and bad design decisions?