Bjarne Stroustrup was never a huge OOP evangelist. He spend all of 1½ page in the first edition of "The C++ Programming Language" explaining why this technique

Bjarne Stroustrup was never a huge OOP evangelist. He spend all of 1½ page in the first edition of "The C++ Programming Language" explaining why this technique would be useful in specific situations, back when it was not widely known. Alexander Stepanov who designed STL is very critical of OOP. Stroustrup likes quoting him, mostly to annoy the evangelists. The C++ "party line" on the Usenet groups back when the OOP craze was at its top and C++ was a hot new upcoming language reflected Stroustrup's view. OOP was a useful technique is certain situations.