Agreed. It's the hogs like Java, C# and C++ that gave OO a bad name. Moreover, in dynamic OO languages like Ruby, even scary things like design patterns usually

Agreed. It's the hogs like Java, C# and C++ that gave OO a bad name. Moreover, in dynamic OO languages like Ruby, even scary things like design patterns usually take lot less time and lines of code to implement and, later, understand.