I feel people don't understand what inheritance and (object orientation in general) is useful for, misuse it, and then it gets a bad reputation. It's not about making nice hierarchies of Cars, Fruits, and Ovals.
Agree 100%. It starts from the earliest programming course where we just teach it all wrong; way to abstract (no pun intended).
One point to add to yours: well executed OOP allows for "structural" flow of control where the object hierarchy, inheritance, events, and overrides allow for the "structure" of the hierarchy to control the flow of logic.
I wrote two articles on this with concrete examples and use cases:
One point to add to yours: well executed OOP allows for "structural" flow of control where the object hierarchy, inheritance, events, and overrides allow for the "structure" of the hierarchy to control the flow of logic.
I wrote two articles on this with concrete examples and use cases:
https://medium.com/codex/structural-control-flow-with-object...
https://medium.com/@chrlschn/weve-been-teaching-object-orien...