So we've been tossing this code around in our office today, and we've come up with this ... As Levine suggested, multiple C++ inheritance is indicative of poor design. Meh.

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 ...

With multiple inheritance you might be tempted to say the Pegasus extends Horse and Bird because you've classified the Bird as an animal with wings. However, Birds have other traits that Pegasi don't.

Let’s look at the C++ code used to test the timing to walk through inheritance and virtual functions. The parent is the class PinOutputAbstract . It represents an output pin on an Arduino: ...