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DownvoteMeToWin on Feb 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Duct Tape Programmer

Currently rewriting every single line of UI code a pile of duct tape programmer spewed out over the span of two years. Writing functional tests so I know when I break the UI. Documenting everything. Hitting all deadlines.

Using multiple inheritance. Lots of It. In fact, no file is over 150 lines long. Composition pattern in full effect as well. I hope it wards off duct tape programmers for life.

> 2015

> multiple inheritance is hard

ducttape pls

skatenerd on Feb 11, 2015 [–]

Composition...isn't the same as inheritance?

raiph on Feb 12, 2015 | | [–]

No. The Yo-Yo problem was one of the primary themes of ECOOP 89, the European Conference on Object Oriented Programming from 26 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-yo_problem

DownvoteMeToWin on Feb 11, 2015 | | [–]

Why not do both?

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/134097/why-sh...

skatenerd on Feb 11, 2015 | | [–]

I didn't see that he wrote "as well". lol.

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