can you summarize OO for me in 64 words or less?
rmenke: Think of it less as "Object-Oriented" and more as "Message-Oriented" and things become clear. Every object has a vocabulary of messages it can respond to. The only contract you have with the object is what it can do, not how it does it; therefore, the supplier of the object is free to implement algorithms as he sees fit. (60 words)Bonus analogy:The web itself is object-oriented. You ask a server to return a resource for a given URL; what server it is (Apache; IIS) and how the content is generated (static page; CGI; PHP) is unnecessary for the conversation.