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I take your critique, Dan, and in the future I'll try to find different ways to make similar points. I'm a bit deflated though, that now that this subthread ha
by rectang 6y ago
I take your critique, Dan, and in the future I'll try to find different ways to make similar points.
I'm a bit deflated though, that now that this subthread has been demoted and dropped to the bottom, the usual "everybody knows inheritance sucks" comments are accumulating up at the top. I really enjoyed having a discussion for once that tried to suss out why inheritance, despite its flaws, was historically so semantically compelling.
- dang 6y agoWe downweight generic subthreads when we see them stuck at the top of a page. I've downweighted that one now. Obviously they're a problem (a big problem - maybe the biggest - because the most generic tangent from any topic is also the one that people are most familiar with, and familiarity breeds both repetition and upvotes). But the solution is not to have a generic tangent which is also a flamewar! However, you already agreed on that point and I don't mean to pile on.