A non-virtual function says, you have to do this and you must do it this way. A virtual function says you have to do this, but you don’t have to do it this way. That’s their fundamental difference.

Lightstone’s Convolution Principle: The concurrent development of multiple features operating on intersecting componentry will take longer to complete than the sum of the schedule estimations for each.

Do that, and the best you can hope for is that people will ignore you. More realistically, you’d be skinned alive, or possibly sentenced to ten year hard labor writing microcode for waffle irons and toaster ovens.

... the results are undefined, and we all know what 'undefined' means: it means it works during development, it works during testing, and it blows up in your most important customers' faces.

A non-virtual function says, you have to do this and you must do it this way. A virtual function says you have to do this, but you don't have to do it this way. That's their fundamental difference.

Do that, and the best you can hope for is that people will ignore you. More realistically, you'd be skinned alive, or possibly sentenced to ten year hard labor writing microcode for waffle irons and toaster ovens.

Lightstone's Convolution Principle: The concurrent development of multiple features operating on intersecting componentry will take longer to complete than the sum of the schedule estimations for each.

Friends, much as in real life, are often more trouble than their worth.

The market is in free-fall. This is certainly not a technical picture. The Nasdaq is falling apart and you don't know where the bottom will be.

The concern is that there is a steady drip-drip about this, and it will become part of the common knowledge about cookware even though people won't get PFOA from cookware.