I have heard it said that objects are data combined with behavior, whichas a snappy summary strikes me as pretty useful; something like ithas certainly guided me in structuring my programs. (Although I amnowhere nearly as strongly object-oriented as is popular these days; Istill have at least a foot in the procedural programming camp.)

It is also a sensible notion, in the abstract; since data by itself isuseless, so you might as well bundle it together with the code thatunderstands it and

Here is something important about system administration: us merely doingour work does not give our users a benefit , not in the sense thatusers perceive benefits. This is because, fundamentally, the job ofsysadmins is to make the systems work the way that they should to startwith, much like the job of the janitorial staff is to keep the buildingclean the way it should be.

(System administration is somewhat different from janitorial work inthat what we work on was not 'clean' in its natural, pre