On 2/19/2015 8:44 PM, Mouse wrote:
  I don't know what the original point of OO coding
was.  But I would say
 that now, OO is not so much any particular language feature (such as
 internals hiding) or any single goal (such as abstraction) as it is a
 mindset.  I would say that OO code can be written in any language
 (well, any general-purpose language; some esolangs, such as Malbolge or
 Befunge, are so difficult to use at all that OO is probably out of
 reach), right down to assembler. 
Now those I consider harmful.
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