> AFAIK java and Eiffel are of the
> single-inheritnace family
>  
>   
Java is single inheritance but it does have interfaces.  It is also 
garbage collected which tends to be a love/hate subject among 
programmers (garbage collection solves a lot of problems but also 
creates a lot of problems of its own). Java also only allows reference 
based objects so you often end up with inefficient data structures like 
an array of references to identical objects with one reference to each 
object (where an array just containing those objects would be a far more 
efficient choice both in terms of total memory and in terms of memory 
manager overhead).

I've never tried coding for .net but i beleive its object model is very 
similar to that of Java (to the point that MS even offered a compiler 
that could produce .net bytecode from java source or bytecode)



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