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

Inheritance is an implementation decision. Interfaces almost always represent a better design, and should usually be used in an external API.

Why write a lot of boilerplate code forwarding method calls to a composed member object when the compiler will do it for you with inheritance?

This answer to another question summarises my thinking pretty well.