This seems like a return, not to Object Oriented development per se, but to the project that motivated the development object oriented languages: to allow for the expression an isomorphism (a one-to-one mapping) of entities in the world with entities in the software system. The authors of Smalltalk were particularly insistent on this idea.<p>As Wittgenstein famously pointed out, to conceptualize language as a correspondence between signs and objects has caused many to ignore the diversity of actual language use.