I managed to avoid being OOP-ed at the beginning of my programming career when I discovered "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl and "Programming P

I managed to avoid being OOP-ed at the beginning of my programming career when I discovered "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl and "Programming Perl" by Larry Wall. It was a close call as I shared a house with a Java programmer who swore Java was the future. Perl was much cooler so I stayed with it and when Clojure appeared it was that much easier to learn, not having to de-OOP myself.