> he's constantly inheriting from unique or shared pointers in his classes That happens when you learn OOP from a bad teacher or text book. Far too many books

> he's constantly inheriting from unique or shared pointers in his classes That happens when you learn OOP from a bad teacher or text book. Far too many books focused entirely on class hierarchies, as if an inheritance diagram was an almost completed program. That leads to a weird kind of brain damage where you think all problem can and must be solved by inheriting from something. It was the STL that taught people that algorithms matter more than taxonomies, but clearly some professors never got the memo.