Please don't include C++ in that statement. C++ doesn't "implement" OOP in any particular way. It gives you a pile of tools which can be mix/matched with other

Please don't include C++ in that statement. C++ doesn't "implement" OOP in any particular way. It gives you a pile of tools which can be mix/matched with other tools in the language to create any number of paradigms. The "pure OOP" style that is so roundly criticized is just one of C++'s possible styles. The whole article is effectively about how there are other ways to use C++. I actually tend to think that much of the style he is describing (composition based) is really just what the pure OOP people used to criticize as "C with objects".