Hmm, not my experience. C++ was my intro to OOP but I was aware of "pure" OO languages like Smalltalk. I feel like my C++ OO experience has taught me a lot alth

Hmm, not my experience. C++ was my intro to OOP but I was aware of "pure" OO languages like Smalltalk. I feel like my C++ OO experience has taught me a lot although I think it's valuable to study another OO language side-by-side. A lot of OO patterns translate between languages although the implementation in C++ is often overly concerned with static types.