Thankfully the pendulum has swung back since the 90s. Stepanov, the inventor of STL (The C++ Standard Template Library) was the pioneer in avoidance of OO. It

Thankfully the pendulum has swung back since the 90s. Stepanov, the inventor of STL (The C++ Standard Template Library) was the pioneer in avoidance of OO. It was truly revolutionary, and had such a huge influence on library design that today most modern C++ libraries are designed the same way. "STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is [...] a hoax. I have yet to see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. [...] I find OOP technically unsound. [...] I find OOP philosophically unsound. " http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html