platypus

Sort of like how if you asked about weird stuff in biology, you won't get a lot of Platypus answers, even though the Platypus is really weird.

It's an awfully weird trojan horse --- or, as Daniel Franke put it on Twitter, a trojan platypus.

The platypus is not a bird/reptile hybrid.

And just like the platypus, vi/vim will still be there as the counter-example to intelligent design.

Sorry but you really look like a scholar saying platypus don't exist because they can't exist.

You've got to remember that the first anatomical specimen of a platypus sent from Australia to London was considered to be a hoax.

But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.' The platypus is remembered because it was one of the many hoaxes which turned out to be real; the OP even lists a whole bunch of hoaxes and fakes!

In the real world, the humble Platypus does not care if we rearrange the ontology, because we didn’t use the ontology to build Australia, just to describe what we found there.

> It's an awfully weird trojan horse --- or, as Daniel Franke put it on Twitter, a trojan platypus.

An entire generation will know about the magical platypus.

So is the platypus God's version of Enterprise Software?

Most of us are familiar with the platypus.

And monotremes like the platypus, an animal that lays eggs but nurses its young with milk." Former biologist here.

For a platypus, "Is-a" is ridiculously broken, and one would not want to try and reproduce the underlying source code.

A much better way is to use interfaces for most things: use IMammal then override "procreate" so you can account for specie extrema like the duck-billed platypus class, which is a mammal that lays eggs.

"A trojan platypus", as Daniel Franke put it.