My biggest take away from this is noticing America was in a much better mood in 1996. > In theory, the use of objects makes program code easier to maintain and

My biggest take away from this is noticing America was in a much better mood in 1996. > In theory, the use of objects makes program code easier to maintain and reuse, although no one has actually shown this to be true. This has gotta be the cheekiest thing I've ever read in NYT outside the opinion pages. >As a programming tool, it has roughly the sex appeal of a wrench. We're way too sex negative and tightly wound for such a metaphor to get past copyeditors today.