I agree that OO is making a big comeback, especially with the explosive fervor behind these new web frameworks (Rails, Django, etc). It seems to me that the bi

I agree that OO is making a big comeback, especially with the explosive fervor behind these new web frameworks (Rails, Django, etc). It seems to me that the biggest case for Smalltalk is that it was the foundation for Ruby, and Rails is definitely pushing Ruby into the top tier. In other news, Alan Kay = badass. He came to my class and talked about how he was trying to use LISP to code TCP/IP in 80 lines.