BusinessWeek 1991: Object-Oriented Programming Will Make Software Simple

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A worn, creased cover of BusinessWeek magazine dated September 30, 1991 ($2.50, 'A McGraw-Hill Publication'). The giant black headline reads 'SOFTWARE MADE SIMPLE' above an illustration of a baby happily typing on a beige desktop computer with a CRT monitor, with a beach ball and toy nearby. Red side text explains: 'It's called object-oriented programming - a way to make computers a lot easier to use. Here's what it can do for you.' A yellow corner banner reads 'THE ECONOMY: WILL LOWER RATES WORK?' and the top strip lists 'STRATEGIES: Chrysler, Intel, Heinz'. Shared today as ironic tech-history: the breathless 1990s promise that OOP would make software so simple a baby could do it, viewed from decades of AbstractFactoryBean inheritance hierarchies later - and rhyming with every subsequent 'X makes software easy' hype cycle