What if Java 8 dropped 'extends'? - JavaWorld: "What if we dropped class inheritance entirely?
This got me thinking about what I could live without. What could we take out of Java? As cracked as it may seem, I could live without the extends keyword.
What the frak, you ask? Well, inheritance isn't tagging -- it's enforcing a hierarchy. Pure hierarchies don't tend to exist in nature, business, or anywhere else but in the human mind. There have been languages with objects but no inheritance. OK, fine, extends Object is probably useful, but do I need to go any further?"Publish Post
