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 ...

I'm coming from a Python world, and trying my hand at C++ for the first time. I think I'm mostly having difficulty with getting my head around the syntax and boilerplate required by C++. I ...

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 ...