OOP was a programming paradigm sponsored by big enterprise. Just search YouTube for this string: "steve jobs object oriented" Apple, NEXT were absolutely the b

OOP was a programming paradigm sponsored by big enterprise. Just search YouTube for this string: "steve jobs object oriented" Apple, NEXT were absolutely the biggest advocates of OOP. The word "object", for a time, literally pervaded all across their product lineups and marketing. Microsoft got on the bandwagon a little later, first with Visual Basic and later with COM (component object model) that was baked into Windows. The latter of which turned out to be an utter disaster. Object oriented programming was being pushed in the same way that ORMs, RDBMS, etc etc. It was a whole sales pitch to make money. Whether it was actually "any good" is very much still up for debate.