Inheritance will save you a ton of time when creating similar classes by repurposing some of the work you've already done and cutting down on redundancy. PowerShell v5 introduced a familiar concept to ...

Embedded C developers shy away from C++ out of concern for performance. The class construct is one of their main concerns. My previous article Code Craft – Embedding C++: Classes explored whether ...

That reuse is a myth seems to be an increasingly common sentiment among programmers. Perhaps, however, reuse is difficult to achieve because deficiencies exist in the traditional object-oriented ...

Everything is an object in the marvelous world of managed code, from simple entities, such as numbers and strings, to complex UI objects, such as controls and forms. As a matter of fact, a form is ...

Though type is an extremely important object-oriented concept, it is often overlooked in favor of implementation-centric concerns. Java program development is as much about design as about ...

Mix-in programming is a style of software development where units of functionality are created in a class and then mixed in with other classes. This might sound like simple inheritance at first, but a ...