[incrudible]

What I've found with all these "paradigms" is that they're only beneficial some of the time, usually not most of the time, never all of the time. It takes some experience and and an anti-dogmatic attitude to judge, for example, when a black box is a good choice and when plain old data is a good choice. Woe to those who attempt to shoehorn their idea of purity unto every application domain they encounter.

[lordnacho]

This is what I wanted to write. There's a bunch of tools in programming, as in any field. There's no tool that's right for every job or wrong for every job.

Sounds boring, but judgement is what the work is about. When you're talking about a specific system you can say "I think we should use OO for this" because so-and-so. But each system needs its own explanation.