About an hour ago I finished David West’s Object Thinking. It’s a great book and a must read for anyone who thinks that he or she knows object oriented development. He saved me from the clutches of the formalists and structured programming. Of course, I still have to convert the guys at work but at least I’m aware of the dangers. I thought I was doing OOP alright but it turns out I was misled by the formalists. So now I’m into Smalltalk (Squeak) to teach myself real object oriented ways without the bounds of an programming language in object disguise (Java, C#). It’s pretty different but I like it and see that there’s a whole new way to create software that the world is seemingly conveniently ignorant of.