Read this. Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming I like this because parts of it are wrong, and parts are based on peculiarities of specific languages which aren’t problems in other languages.

The “wrong” things are on a spectrum. At one end are things almost right. The other end is hoped-for …

See Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming. I don't want to say that the entire article is bunk. It's not. It raises a few good points. Points which I thought were pretty well known. What's aggravating is that this lamentation is overly broad. It treats all languages as if they're Java or …