Stef,
I'm sure you really miss last year, but we're entering the second quarter of 2011 ;-)
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Getting back to the technical part of your post, I also always tried to understand why in some cases we end up with this strange hierarchy
people long time ago thought that inheritance = reuse.
(which you mock saying Car inherits from Wheel), specially if we take in account Smalltalk is a single inheritance language, so you have only a shot to specialize a given class.
Maybe the folks that did it in the past were less used to composing than inheriting and the second way saves writing some new methods to avoid breaking the Demeter principle?
I'm quite sure that LOD was not their concern.
Perhaps understanding the "crucial incident" could lead us to better roadmap. . .
No. We know design. We should just implement it. Stef