I think the better word you're looking for might be "reify" rather than "decompress". But there is something here that I can relate to. A long time ago I also m

I think the better word you're looking for might be "reify" rather than "decompress". But there is something here that I can relate to. A long time ago I also made a comparison between various languages of "what do you have to understand to fully understand a Hello World program?" An interesting followup to that would be how much you have to understand on top of that to understand a more useful program. You might be interested in this book, Patterns of Software, which brings up the issue that inheritance in OOP isn't about reuse but about compression and how the implications of that are why it's not had that much success in following through on the "reuse" promise. http://dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf http://dreamsongs.com/Files/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf