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From: phinely@Hawaii.Edu (Peter Hinely)
Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
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In article <4kqhit$jie@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com>,
Mike Zorn <ozma@kaiwan009.kaiwan.com> wrote:
>
>   Multiple inheritance, like Nehru jackets and the 14th Amendment
>(prohibition), should be thought of as a probably good idea that
>just never worked out.
>

Isn't multiple inheritance a valuable technique for modeling objects? 
Don't confuse C++'s _implementation_ of multiple inheritance with the
concept of multiple inheritance. 

