> I was struck at the time at how OO mostly just formalized and gave specific names to what good programmers were already doing informally. I mean, that's the

> I was struck at the time at how OO mostly just formalized and gave specific names to what good programmers were already doing informally. I mean, that's the point of everything, isn't it? giving names and defining good practices so that everyone can benefit from them? because even today you can find a LOT of codebases which are an imperative mess