The comparison of real life biology and the software problem is superficial in the first place. No one is releasing ‘Biological life forms 2.0’ and worrying ab

The comparison of real life biology and the software problem is superficial in the first place. No one is releasing ‘Biological life forms 2.0’ and worrying about whether penguins stop working. The problem is that writing reusable software is hard, inheritance is a really easy way to introduce reusable code into your software but a bad abstraction or base class has viral effects.