Slashdot and getting there from here

In a post about programming languages and XML, Don Box says:

the real challenge is bringing hoards of developers who jumped on the OO train and believe that no other approach to design or implementation is reasonable.

So true. I think this really started a few years ago (remember MTS?) when developers needed to start thinking about separating data and operations. The idea of this separation, while being arguably anti-classic-OO, has become more and more important as time has gone on. Transactional COM+ systems…web services…the list continues.