Java’s single inheritance limitation is usually not a problem in the normal course of development. In fact, the need to use multiple inheritance could be a sign of a bad design.

Java doesn’t support multiple inheritance through class extension, however. When viewing an inheritance hierarchy, you can easily detect multiple inheritance by the presence of a diamond pattern.

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 ...

Java does enable the option to mark a class as final to eliminate the ability to perform inheritance complete, but that is often too heavy of a hammer to drop. Marking a class as final prevents all ...

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 ...

Twenty-three years ago, in his Design Principles and Design Patterns article, Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin boiled down the Liskov substitution principle to the idea that "derived classes should be ...