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It's difficult to argue with this article. I can count on one hand the number of times non-trivial class hierarchies (that is, more more than 2-3 classes) made my life easer and every time that was the case I writing a compiler or a code generator or something similar.



The Magnitude/Number hierarchy in Smalltalk is amazing.




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