Multiple Inheritance Debates II: according to Stroustrup
- by asksuperuser
I know very well about the traditional arguments about why Interface Inheritance is prefered to multiple inheritance, there has been already a post here :
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/191691/should-c-include-multiple-inheritance
But according to Stroustrup the real reason why Microsoft and Sun decided to get rid off multiple inheritance is that they have vested interest to do so: instead of putting features in the languages, they put in frameworks so that people then become tied to their platform instead of people having the same capability at a language standard level.
What do you think ?
Why Sun and Microsoft consider developers too immature to just make the choice themselves ?