Is everything an object?

Ted Leung expresses an issue with Ruby and Smalltalk:

Looks like I'm going to end up looking at Ruby after all. My issue with Ruby (and Smalltalk) is that I don't think that I buy that everything needs to be an object.

I can't say that this has ever looked like a problem to me - and I've seen plenty of code that made no such assumptions ;). In cases where a real object model doesn't seem to make sense, you can always just use a class and just write class methods - but again, I don't know how often that need would come up.

As I mentioned yesterday, Ted's blog has a good set of entries on OSCON. There's more new posts on the show up today.