I think I'm mostly having difficulty with getting my head around the syntax and boilerplate required by C++. I basically want to do multiple inheritance ... isn't a great example, but I hope ...

and a lot of reasons it's not a good idea in a language like C++. In many cases, people use inheritance to provide a trait to a class. For example think of a Pegasus. With multiple inheritance you ...

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 ...