[nforgerit]

When I learned programming as a teenager, I was using one of the C++ classics which, of course, taught OOP and Inheritance as a magic silver bullet.

When I then finished the book and its examples, I wanted to do my own exercises and went through about 1-2 very painful years trying to model my things using Inheritance and totally blamed myself for being too stupid to do software development.

Only then I started searching and finding essays and blog posts of people criticizing OOP and esp. Inheritance for exactly the things I was struggling with. This felt like a relief!

My question: Why is Inheritance still taught as a silver bullet? I'm seeing university courses using Inheritance both for Domain and infrastructural code reuse at the same time. Esp. in Germany I see a lot of stupid 90s alike "programming" courses and, no shit, according code bases. It's as if they were living in a gigantic bubble.