> One of my largest gripes making the switch, is the OO paradigm. C++ supports object-oriented programming, but OO is not intrinsic to the language. OO is just

> One of my largest gripes making the switch, is the OO paradigm. C++ supports object-oriented programming, but OO is not intrinsic to the language. OO is just one of the many tools. You can write good functional and procedural C++. If you try to shoehorn every problem into the OO model, you're probably doing it wrong. From the Bjarne Stroustrup himself: http://www.stroustrup.com/oopsla.pdf http://www.stroustrup.com/oopsla.pdf and again here: https://isocpp.org/blog/2014/12/myths-1 https://isocpp.org/blog/2014/12/myths-1 "C++ supports OOP and other programming styles, but is deliberately not limited to any narrow view of “Object Oriented.” It supports a synthesis of programming techniques including object-oriented and generic programming."