[anexprogrammer]

You indirectly put your finger on the real problem with OOP, and that's that a lot of people using it in the wild are frankly not very good at it. Bad object design, not seeing what should be objects in the first place.

I always felt that people who had never used C before C++ or Java, nor any other procedural language, aside from some scripting tended to some of the messiest OO. Seemed they'd want to create a sea of objects and patterns even when something simple was staring them in the face.

OO is harder to teach, and clearly harder to understand. That's the top and bottom of most issues with it.

[kazagistar]

> OO is harder to teach, and clearly harder to understand

That is a pretty damning judgement of OOP. It seems to me the whole point of a paradigm should be to improve understandability. If, in practice, it makes it worse, then it is a failed paradigm.

[smadge]

If you give someone a gun, they might shoot themselves. If you give someone a table saw, they might cut off their hand. If you teach someone objected oriented programming, they might write a unmaintainable ball of mud.