I also struggle with OOP and its layers of abstractions, but have seen some of the practical benefits, when wielded by experienced programmers, how it can provi

I also struggle with OOP and its layers of abstractions, but have seen some of the practical benefits, when wielded by experienced programmers, how it can provide a consistent conceptualization and order to a codebase. I also agree that there's cargo-culting and marketing that oversells the paradigm. Personally I'm a fan of functional programming, although that seems to be getting oversold as well.. When speaking of object-oriented programming, I think going back to its roots helps to clarify the idea: Meaning of "Object-Oriented Programming" According to Dr. Alan Kay http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay_oop_en http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay...