> OOP is a crazy academic-esque idea that happened to stick because it works at scale. I suppose it's weird to be young enough that you're first exposure to OO

> OOP is a crazy academic-esque idea that happened to stick because it works at scale. I suppose it's weird to be young enough that you're first exposure to OOP is it being taught in an academic environment. It must make it seem like it was dreamed up like some kind of formalism and spewed into your brain. But before OOP languages and everything that you describe, people using plain old procedural languages were already coding in an OOP style because it's obviously beneficial. Languages later came along to formalize patterns that people had used for years. For a more modern example you just have to look at the Linux kernel which includes a lot of OOP principles even though it's all just C.