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I think OOP caught on because of IDEs with auto-complete functionality, you type object dot and it offers all the method names for you.

• cgrealy 6y ago
  OOP was around long before IDEs were that popular.
  • mac01021 6y ago
    When was that?
    • cgrealy 6y ago
      Depends on how far back you want to go. The term "object oriented programming" was coined back in the 60s. Languages like Smalltalk were introduced in the 70s.