on OO v. FP, and why lang's like Ruby feels so good

[Shriram Krishnamurthi <address@hidden>]

Henning von Rosen wrote:

> [Travers]
> this text is of high relevancy to language design. A must-read!
> and it does a great job of clarifying and justifying the role of 
> metaphorical thinking in CS/lang-des.

For those of us with less time to read an entire dissertation, perhaps
you could point us to one or two conference and journal papers (you
know, the usual peer-review stuff) that summarize his contribution?

Shriram