One take, from Robin Popplestone, long ago in comp.lang.functional: “… it does seem to me that … OOP represents the discovery by the mainstream community that i

One take, from Robin Popplestone, long ago in comp.lang.functional: “… it does seem to me that … OOP represents the discovery by the mainstream community that it is a good idea to associate code with data, but, since they still don't know how to do closures, they have bodged it.”