A city is not a tree: https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/cityisnotatree.htm...

		zb 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Inheritance was invented as a performance hack (20... A city is not a tree: https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/cityisnotatree.html Even trees are not trees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastomosis Evolution is most definitely not a tree. Nature also tends towards practicality, even more so than programming. Trees aren’t a fundamental truth, they’re a made-up oversimplified abstraction.

evolution is a tree. Follow the ancestral lines. Even the term inheritance comes from evolution.