To quote Bjarne Stroustrup, "Multiple inheritance is like a parachute. Most of the time you don't need it, but when you do need it, you really need it." In the early days of C++, before templates ...

As Levine suggested, multiple C++ inheritance is indicative of poor design. ... Think of it as a whole bunch of overlapping Venn diagrams for what musical things support what properties, ...

So they cut multiple inheritance from the language (just as they cut operator overloading). The designers’ extensive C++ experience taught them that multiple inheritance just wasn’t worth the ...