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One of the main reasons for creating Java was to address the problems of C++. One such problem was multiple inheritance, which was prone to ambiguity when a class inherited from two separate classes which shared a function with an identical definition. The designers of Java decided to eliminate this problem altogether by only allowing a class to inherit from a single other concrete class.

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