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Matz’s third article for programming beginners with eight pages was published on a magazine, Nikkei Linux Jul 2005, in Japan. He discusses how static or dynamic typed languages such as Smalltalk, Lisp, Java and Ruby resolve (or do not) single and multiple inheritance. There is a good example: Smalltalk’s three Stream classes, Read/Write Stream. Yes, Ruby (and Lisp) has the wonderful Mix-in. He also says that the multiple inheritance dilemma resembles that of goto because they are too much functional to manage.

Next topic will be Duck Typing.