My lukewarm enthusiasm for OO stems from a different set of reasons than these. I view its main benefit to be the way it reinforces encapsulation as a design p

My lukewarm enthusiasm for OO stems from a different set of reasons than these. I view its main benefit to be the way it reinforces encapsulation as a design pattern. But good code with clearly organized functions and data structures can achieve that just as well. I don't have anything against it, and wielded with skill I see its benefit. But after 30 years of programming I think you can achieve many of those benefits more simply without it.