Inheritance can descend through multiple levels, leading to ever-more-specific categories. As an example, Figure 1 shows car and truck inheriting from vehicle; station wagon inheriting from car ...

July 19, 2002 Q: Why doesn’t the Java language support multiple inheritance? A: Whenever you find yourself asking why Java has or does not have some feature, consider the design goals behind the ...

On the positive side, C++ gives you objects, and it supports multiple inheritance and templates. But Java is where the action is. As a language, Java is rather elegant.