> These crazy rules people come up with for "proper object oriented" programming remind me of extreme religious rituals. You have to observe all these stupid little rules or else your code will become impure you and will spend an eternity in code maintenance hell.

What's even more amusing is that the people prescribing these rules aren't even using languages where OO is implemented properly. I will start listening when they start using Common Lisp or Smalltalk for their examples. When they use C++ or Java, it just makes me giggle.