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>But with OOP, a lot of things can be done once and for all, and you never have to think about them again. For example, it seems to me that in many cases, a dropdown picklist should display items in most-recently-used order, rather than taking the easy approach of just alphabetizing. Naturally, this is harder to code, but if you do it right, you only have to think about it once.

Hmm.. I kind of like this idea. But, I also wonder if something like this would just pi** me off if I was using a program for the first time. Something like this would definitely need to be tailered to the person. Maybe start out alphabetized, then reorganize to most-recently-used. BTW- the drop-down typeface selector in Word does something like this.