[LAC-Tech]

I'm an OO programmer, and I avoid using classes in C++. The happy path seems to be to treat at C with STL + smart pointers, not C with classes.

[ahartmetz]

About OO: Bundling data and behavior is a fine technique in some situations, nothing wrong with it. Sometimes, even inheritance makes sense.

[ncmncm]

If you are not using classes, you are not using OO at all, by definition.

That does necessarily not mean you are programming badly, although you might be. But restricting yourself to STL and smart pointers does very strongly resemble Java Disease. You might as well switch to Java.

[pjmlp]

Definition by whom, certainly not by CS and the innumerous SIGPLAN papers and variations on what OOP means since Simula came into the world.

[pjmlp]

STL has plenty of OOP concepts.