Part 6: Use interfaces for safe multiple inheritance and a great deal more; Part 7: Learn about Java’s many shapes and find out how to accommodate generalities in your class hierarchies; ...

By using interfaces, you can, for example, include behavior from multiple sources in a class. That capability is important in C# because the language doesn’t support multiple inheritance of classes.

To quote Bjarne Stroustrup, "Multiple inheritance is like a parachute. Most of the time you don't need it, but when you do need it, you really need it." In the early days of C++, before templates ...

A controversial new proposal for .NET suggests the introduction of a limited form of multiple inheritance via abstract interfaces. This feature was inspired by Java’s default methods.

It seems that MI has fallen severely out of favor. Neither of the two "big" programming languages to come out in the last few years, Java or C#, make use of multiple implementation inheritance ...