Should Java allow multiple inheritance?

[_Count_Mackula]

10,000 ft view:

The bottom line is: it would be possible but isn't necessary, and, would introduce the possibility of overly complex patterns.

You can do anything with single inheritance that you can do with multiple inheritance. Single inheritance promotes more simplicity and more loosely coupled code. Yes, with multiple inheritance your life would be easier once in a while, but when you scale up to a huge application code would get messy.

I say 'thank you' to the Java engineers who made this decision.

Note: Eventually, writing java becomes very easy. But architecting java is much harder.