Maybe if you had read the article, you would have seen this: " A proposed new course on object-oriented design methodology will be offered at the sophomore level for those students who wish to study this topic." It doesn't sound to me like CMU is interested in making OOP a mandatory area of study. It also doesn't sound to me like it's going to be taught at the junior or senior level either, based on the tone of that statement.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the post... it sounds to me like OO techniques are only going to be taught in elective courses from now on. If that's the case, I think CMU is missing the fact that the majority of development work in the "real world" is done on already-existing platforms. Parallel/cloud computing and modular design may be the "next big thing", but what happens when the student gets their first job working with an application built with Java or .NET? Maybe in their ivory tower they can say "OO is dead" but in the real world, OO is very real.

Not when you read Slashdot.

As others have pointed out in one way or another, the flexibility is what makes Wave so useful. Because who we haven't heard from are people that are using Wave in a semi-large office or project/group situation. Then I think its true productivity value will shine. To people not using it for work, it's really just IRC with a kick in the ass.