1. The SHell Object Oriented Programming library Every language under the sun these days is Object Oriented. In an effort to make POSIX shell more buzzword compliant, and to show that it's really not a big deal for a language to lack built-in OO support, we have added object orientation to plain old shell script. Specifically, we have implemented classless OO with introspection, finalization, serialization, and multiple inheritance. From Debian 3.0r0 APT