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On 3 Apr 2011, at 15:30, harrismh777 wrote:

> Brian Quinlan wrote:
>> I suspect that this debate is a sink hole that I won't be able to  
>> escape
>> from alive but...
>
> ... live long and prosper my friend.
>
> Something to consider is that OOP philosophy is technically one of  
> the most aesthetic concepts in all of computer science--- with pure  
> functional programming (haskel, erlang) as a close second...

You can keep arguing that but you are tilting at windmills.

Cheers,
Brian