What programmers do with inheritance in java

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7920 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 577-601

  Tempero, Ewan ^a   Yang, Hong Yul ^a   Noble, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXTERNAL CODE; ITS APPLICATIONS; JAVA SOFTWARE; LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS; OPEN SOURCES; SUBTYPINGS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84880017011     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39038-8_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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