In object technology, a function that has a default operation for a base class, but which can be overridden and perform a different operation by a derived class. A derived class inherits the attributes (data) and methods (processing) of a higher-level class.
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- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
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- Software downloads 2009-10-21
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- Software downloads 2009-10-20
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- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
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- Software downloads 2009-10-15
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- Software downloads 2009-10-12
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- Software downloads 2009-10-08
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- Blog posts 2009-10-05
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- Software downloads 2009-09-24
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- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
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- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
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- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
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