Ah, I see what you mean. I do think it's valuable/reasonable to discuss OOP as it is 'in the wild', but I can also see how it's a bit of a dead horse to beat, a

Ah, I see what you mean. I do think it's valuable/reasonable to discuss OOP as it is 'in the wild', but I can also see how it's a bit of a dead horse to beat, and discussing what could be (or didn't become the mainstream) is at least more interesting.