I rarely see programmers agree on anything. We're very argumentative. I've worked with people who insist their code is object oriented because it's written in

I rarely see programmers agree on anything. We're very argumentative. I've worked with people who insist their code is object oriented because it's written in Java, even though it's all classes full of static methods with no instance variables. I wouldn't call that object oriented, but they would. So yes, the term is becoming meaningless. The concepts are being ignored. That doesn't make them invalid, it just means we have more educating to do.