“Object oriented programming, for all its later excesses, was a big step forward in software engineering. It made it possible to develop much larger programs th

“Object oriented programming, for all its later excesses, was a big step forward in software engineering. It made it possible to develop much larger programs than before, maybe 10x larger[...]OOP made it possible to write programs that could not have been written before” Teams were writing million-lines-of-code Fortran programs in the 1980s to simulate the atmosphere, nuclear weapons, etc. Somehow I think these remarks need some qualification.