For some odd cosmic anomaly, I learned programming almost exclusively in functional programming environments. My first language was R, and subsequently learned

For some odd cosmic anomaly, I learned programming almost exclusively in functional programming environments. My first language was R, and subsequently learned Scheme, Clojure, Ocaml, Haskell, and currently program primarily in Scala. Having never gone a through the OOP trend, and realizing that my current programming experience happened to be de jour gave me some undeserved confidence. So much so that I would regularly make fun of all of the Java drones at my work for their insistence on using such an inferior paradigm. Then due to some directions I was taking at my job, it became very valuable to run millions of simulations of warehouse and transportation operations. After months of pain, I discovered object oriented programming (luckily I didn't have to abandon my language of choice to get it). Comparatively speaking, there wasn't a functional design pattern I could find that could come anywhere close to the simple elegance of OOP for modeling people, vehicles, warehouses, etc. It's almost as if different ideas have different virtues in different domains.