Hiya Jim ---

(Looks like I'm moving to your area...I'll have to check out the limo :-))

Anyway.....IMHO, Cooper deals with ideal interfaces. I just don't see where all the suggestions he makes can be dealt with in the real world, just as Lenin never instituted the Communist state described by Marx.

In my experience, the client generally doesn't give you time to do nifty interfaces anyway....they want the job done....there are those in our profession who have garnered bad reps by being too slow to deliver when trying to perfect an interface.

I guess I have the same aversion to blind adherence to an interface *theory* as I do to blind adherence to OOP theory....compromises and the purpose of the application *have* to be considered.