>>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.
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>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. :)

JK is referring to a thread in on VB Journal's website some months back that was started and fueled by JVP. Given JVP's love of an argument and occasional stray into an ad-hominem attack, you could imagine the heat over there.

What I never saw brought up were nearly identical quotes from authorities on the subject that explicitly state that a tool is only object based if it does not support inheritance.

Grady Booch (Best of Booch)
Steve McConnell (Code Complete)
Edward Yourdon (many books, Decline and Fall of the American Programmer)

Hearing it from Booch is all the argument I need to hear before closing the book. (Is there antone else nearly as qualified to make this sort of statement)