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 basically ...

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, one ...