Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm today, object-oriented programming (OOP) languages, such as C++ and Java, provide a formal set of rules for creating and managing objects.

Java's open inheritance model can feel like an open invitation to unintended extensions. The problem becomes especially poignant when a switch statement or a nesting of if statements assumes that a ...

Many mistakenly assume that interfaces only sidestep Java’s failure to support multiple implementation inheritance. In reality, that workaround is only a side-effect of interface usage ...