Traits cited by Guy Steele in Doctor Dobbs Journal this month

Ned Konz ned at squeakland.org
Fri Mar 11 00:19:34 UTC 2005


The DDJ Excellence in Programming award this year was awarded to Guy Steele.

In the interview with him (DDJ April 2005, page 20), I read:
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... 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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Congratulations to the Traits team for getting such good press, and such an 
influential booster!

-- 
Ned Konz
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