The author took the thesis in one direction, but there's another interesting way to think of it. C++ is an epitaph for every discarded concept in OO design. Di

The author took the thesis in one direction, but there's another interesting way to think of it. C++ is an epitaph for every discarded concept in OO design. Diamond inheritance, generics to a fault, operator overloading to a fault, the richness of STL types. Those "patterns" are dead, but the language features must continue to be supported.