Topic: Object orientation

Each year I try to attend at least one developer conference. Earlier OOPSLA was a given but it lost its appeal quite a few years back and now it is not even called OOPSLA anymore. As a die hard Smalltalker I instead attended the ESUG conference in Brest 2009 and it was easily the most rewarding conference I ever have attended! Missed last year in Barcelona but this year I am going to Edinburgh for a week of Smalltalking.

Before the summer I had the opportunity to do a Skype interview with Dan Ingalls, the “Guido/Larry/Linus” of Smalltalk.

I just read Joe Armstrong’s old “Why OO sucks” article, Joe Armstrong being the inventor of Erlang. Granted, the article is from year 2000 I think, so perhaps I should cut him some slack… nah! :)