a case for multiple inheritance

Hi All,
Although C# has Generics, it still does not support the generic programming paradigm. Multiple inheritance is required to support real generic programming. Here is a simple design pattern to illustrate this.

Problem:
I need to expose two lists of objects from a high-level class. I would like to expose these lists as read-only, but require write access internally.

Solution:
1) Create a generic ProtectedList<T> class which inherits from List<T> and overrides the write functions (using the new modifier) to change the access level from public to protected.
2) Inherit both specialized List<T> by the high-level class

Discussion:
While this usage of inheritance does not conform to the "is-a" relation imposed by the OOP paradigm, it is a simple and easy way to reuse code in a generic way.

Thanks for any thoughts, and good solutions to this problem in the existing C# paradigm.
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