Which is pretty much my point. Python has morphed into "everything is an object". To see how C++ has moved towards objects-for-everything, I have just one word

Which is pretty much my point. Python has morphed into "everything is an object". To see how C++ has moved towards objects-for-everything, I have just one word - boost! RE your second point - I don't know of any studies that show OOPS makes programmers more productive. As a matter of fact, some anecdotal evidence (cough pg cough), points to the opposite!