Should inheritance (of non-interface types) be removed from programming languages?

Question

This is quite a controversial topic, and before you say \"no\", is it really, really needed?

I have been programming for about 10 years, and I can\'t honestly sa

Answer 1

I believe a better mechanism for code re-use which is sometimes achieved through inheritance are traits. Check this link (pdf) for a great discussion on this, including the distinction between traits and mixins, and why traits are favored.

There's some research that introduces traits into C# (pdf).

Perl has traits through Moose::Roles. Scala traits are like mixins, as in Ruby.