[azalex]

I would actually love to hear/read about this more, especially the part where you compare others' misconceptions with what you think differently. I've been interested in how people get the "wrong" idea for a very long time and I like getting feedback from others on this matter.

[x0hm]

Language is fuzzy. Every word you say is a theory that carries with it everything you know about a word.

"Red" may bring to mind the color. It may bring to mind anger. It may bring to mind a bull and a matador.

All of those things happen in your subconscious, and they affect your understanding in uniquely-local ways.

So the transfer of information through speech from my mind to yours may sound very direct, but your interpretation of what I am saying is different than my interpretation of what I'm saying in very subtle ways.

Because of this, there's a very good chance that I am either completely wrong because I have misinterpreted things, that I am wrong because you have different context than I do, or that I have done a poor job of explaining things because context exists locally (in my head) that you don't have.

About this topic in particular, it was hyperbole to say "you are all doing it wrong". What is more accurate to say is that "my understanding of OOP is different in implementation than what I'm used to seeing, and I believe that my understanding is more correct/beneficial than those implementations"