Brad,
> I'm very happy with the technical quality of O'Reilly books. Am I 
> missing something?

everything that guy wrote makes perfect sense and is very true... from a
certain viewpoint (to quote Obi-Wan Kenobi (no need to point out that I
slightly changed the wording - I did it on purpose)). And that viewpoint
is that OOP means Simula->C++->Java. See the "Algol: Smalltalk, I am
your grandfather!" thread for alternative viewpoints.

-- Jecel