>You wanna have some fun? Go to a VB board and tell them that they can't be doing OOP because they don't have inheritance and watch the fur fly. VB developers have edited inheritance out of their personal OOP definition because they don't have it....it's a real in-denial issue.

Tell me about it. :) There's a guy on comp.object with whom I've wasted a lot of time arguing about this. Indeed, he's so fervent that he's almost singlehandedly responsible for comp.object.moderated. :)