>Wow, Dave, a breath-taking post. May I ask what books you've been reading
    >lately since this is also one of my interests...

Well, I can't speak for Dave, but I rather liked
the book "EdgeWare", as well as parts of Jim Highmith's 
ASD book.  And as another poster mentioned, Gabriel's
speech at OOPSLA last year was very thought provoking
(and exists on-line somewhere in the wild web...)

/\ndy


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