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A quote from a 2015 Slashdot interview with the creator of C++'s Standard Template Library, Alexander Stepanov, popped up in my birdsite feed:

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<< I am still convinced that Simula/C++/Java style inheritance is unsound.>>

<<One of the biggest changes since then has been the growth of caches. Cache misses are very costly, so locality of reference is much more important now. Node-based data structures, which have low locality of reference, make much less sense.>>

interviews.slashdot.orgInterviews: Alexander Stepanov and Daniel E. Rose Answer Your Questions - Slashdotsamzenpus (5) writes "Alexander Stepanov is an award winning programmer who designed the C++ Standard Template Library. Daniel E. Rose is a programmer, research scientist, and is the Chief Scientist for Search at A9.com. In addition to working together, the duo have recently written a new book title...