[foobarian]

I feel like OOP always had the nerd catnip problem. Since the very beginning the various programming tutorials would have the contrived examples of animals and canines and dogs, or geometric shapes and triangles etc. which just managed to ring a particular very satisfying bell in people's heads. It was just such a neat concept with those examples that just made sense. How it turned out in practice is a different story but I feel this had a lot to do with the enthusiastic uptake.

[colllectorof]

1983 Smlltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation by Adele Goldberg and David Robson had pretty good example with none of this animal/mammal/dog crap. Not sure when the trend for giving awful examples like this really started, but I don't think it was "from the very beginning".