" The DrDobbs Journal Excellence in Programming award this year was awarded to Guy Steele from Sun.
In the interview with him about their new language Fortress, (DDJ April 2005, page 20), I read: ---- ... There's a difference between a new programming language and some advance that creates a major paradigm shift. Fortress [their new language] has a new object-oriented type structure, multiple inheritance, and the traits idea [S. Ducasse, N. Schaerli, O. Nierstrasz, R. Wuyts, and A. Black, "Traits: A Mechanism for Fine-Grained Reuse" ...] Traits are a way of getting better code reuse in object-oriented programming. Imagine Java interfaces but you can put code in them: not field declarations, just code. ---- "
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