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| • | Merriam-Webster
on-line dictionary |
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| – | “a
gift by will especially of money or other personal |
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| property” |
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| – | “something
transmitted by or received from an ancestor |
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| or
predecessor or from the past” |
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| • | The
usual joke is that in anything but software, |
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| you’d
love to receive a legacy |
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| – | Maybe
we feel the same way about inheritance, too, |
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| especially
multiple inheritance |
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