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Dermot Hogan, a long-time OOP-sceptic, is now the lead developer of an OOP IDE. Here he debates the pros and cons of Object Orientation with OOP-convert, Huw Collingbourne… Huw: Back in June 2005, you wrote a column in which you argued that Object Oriented Programming (OOP) has turned out to be a failure. In the period since then, you and I have been working on the Ruby In Steel IDE written for one object oriented language (Ruby) and written (largely) in another object oriented (...)

An interesting article and intelligent article I thought until I read the phrase:

"and c) a simple C like syntax"

on the last line. Isn’t this phase an oxymoron?

Ralph Boland