He poses the question asking what Object Oriented Programming paradigm is, and then responds that the obvious answer is the notion of Classes, Inheritance, and

He poses the question asking what Object Oriented Programming paradigm is, and then responds that the obvious answer is the notion of Classes, Inheritance, and Objects. He then goes to correct that notion by suggesting that "what it's really about is...you figure out what the domain abstractions are for you, and here we give you these mechanisms to implement those. But in the end you don't write your programs with objects and classes, you write your program with the domain abstractions which you have defined." This to me is a ridiculous statement. EVERY paradigm is about providing tools to handle the domain abstractions which we have defined. Object Oriented Programming is exactly and specifically defined by a paradigm expressed by Object instances of Classes, meant to embody Encapsulation, Inheritance, Abstraction, and Polymorphism. OOP clearly means something to this person that it doesn't mean to the rest of the world, but he strikes me as someone who has spent the better part of the last 2 decades in pure academia.