Justin Gehtland rips James McGovern a new one. He quotes James here:

“I also couldn’t find the equivalent of instance variables. Wouldn’t that make reuse at an enterprise-level somewhat problematic?”

Wow. I can tell you, I'm not that familiar with Ruby, but I know that it has all the basic OO building blocks. I put together a post awhile back where I created a Smalltalk equivalent to some Ruby code. It sounds like Justin's right - either McGovern can't use Google, or he can't read with comprehension. Either way, "thought leader" is kind of an inapt description of his, umm, "skills". Here's how Justin translated the above:

I think this is just a translation problem. Let me tell you what James was actually trying to say: “I’ve never looked at Ruby, written a line of code in it, or read a blog entry about it. It threatens my Java-based hegemony, though, so I’d better get out in front of the issue right away.”

Because there is no other possible explanation for being a “thought leader” on software and being unable to ferret out the exemplars of the Big Three (inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation) in any object oriented language in under 30 seconds.

Who IS this guy?

Who indeed? Not someone you should trust with any of your development needs, if this represents his thought leadership in action.