> articles like this ignore fundamental, empirical proof: OO has worked. There will be hundreds, maybe thousands, of projects started this year in an OO methodo

> articles like this ignore fundamental, empirical proof: OO has worked. There will be hundreds, maybe thousands, of projects started this year in an OO methodology, and they will live or die not because the developers chose OO, but because of generally more basic issues of competency. If projects live or die based on competency, not methodology, then how is the existence of so many projects proof that "OO has worked", rather than proof that "Software Engineering is prone to bandwagons and hype"?