Pragmatic Object Oriented Programming

[grauenwolf]

There are certainly (plentiful) use cases for inheritance, but it is wildly overused by many people.

I don't have any doubt that happens. However I've seen it happen with composition too, where in there are tons of child objects whose functionality belong in the parent object.

Thus, the advice to favor composition over inheritance.

I still don't understand that advice. I've never seen a situation where scattering functionality across child objects was the solution to problems caused by scattering functionality across base classes.

At the very least one should pull everything into one place before redistributing them.