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I don't think that 'OOP as currently conceived by many languages didn't fulfil all the promises made about it' is particularly controversial.
Especially the idea that we can (or even should) model reality into classes representing things seems a bit odd in retrospect. We found ways to work around these limitations (like design patterns, not using inheritance), but the very fact that we need these things shows the limitations of the paradigm.
I came from this from the other way, I learned functional programming and am now very happily merging the 2 paradigms together. (we all do, LINQ is FP)
OOP does some things better, FP does others better (like concurrency), the most important thing is to keep it simple. People get hung up on reuse and abstractions, while they should be focussed on cognitive load and simplicity.
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This is how I feel about almost all frameworks. As soon as you try to apply them outside their original purpose you end up with bloated, slow, and unmaintainable code.
OO is a tool to organize your code, but like all tools it can be misused.
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Codewitch, from the replies, your opinion isn't all that unpopular.
In specific uses cases, OO is a great technique. Thinking about encapsulation is helpful in identifying all the pieces-n-parts, even in situations where the solution is procedural.
But as others have stated, it's not a universal tool and it's amazing how badly people use and mis-use it. I've seen co-workers spend months shoe-horning a solution into an inheritance model, when a procedural solution was completed in 2 weeks (after the OO solution failed).
It's like everything else -- when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail ...
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I don't think that OO in general is "ill conceived" but I do agree that is by far overused and misused since it was "invented".
There are certainly benefits to encapsulate both code and data, and to some degree, abstraction can help to make code more readable and thus maintainable. But in far too many cases, this leads nowadays just to a royal mess where people do this ad nauseam, creating totally unreadable and incomprehensible code (beside the original coder, at the time they creating that piece of code) and are even proud of it.
It's simply has turned into "too much of a good thing"...
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That's why i say it was ill conceived. At least perhaps.
Is software development better or worse off because of it?
I'm not so sure it's better. I don't know though.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: A lot of coders spend a lot of lines of code dividing things into tiny steps which they then make whole classes for and abstract everything to the Nth degree, often even when the abstraction is not helpful.
They're doing it wrong. Deciding what things or processes to abstract and how to divvy things up isn't difficult to do once you know how, but learning it can be painful. It took me over ten years to acquire the background to be able to handle some things. There are a lot of developers out there who simply never get it. They end up blindly applying one or more approaches from Design Patterns[^] or other cookbooks. They finally reach steady state as one trick ponies (apologies to Paul Simon) where every problem is a nail, and they've got the hammer with which to beat it to death.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I agree with that. I did some hard time as a software architect. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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Coincidentally, I was tripping through a large C++ program (about 100,000 LOC) to make some relatively minor enhancements. The original architect(s) of this program did a fantastic job of using all the features of C++ including lambdas, auto's, executable code in header files, virtual functions, just to name a few.
The frigging code was terribly difficult to follow!
But what was the major hindrance was the exorbitant use of getters/setters between classes. A lot of the code looked like:
bool Var;
.....
bool ClassName::isVarSet()
{
return Var;
}
using 6 lines on the screen. Alwfully tough to read and comprehend.
Caused me to start hating C++.
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There's such thing as K.I.S.S.
I feel your pain though - diving through the STL headers sometimes feels like that.
Real programmers use butterflies
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...and my word but it's tedious stuff.
But ... I notice something different.
No Andrex ads with fluffy puppies.. No Charmin ads with cuddly Koalas. No TP ads at all!
I wonder why ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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And let me guess: No more canned bat?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Have you seen the latest PG Tips advert: "Share a cup of tea with a friend"? 
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Seriously - now there is a run on TP ads in the UK?
That is truly a step beyond...
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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DRHuff wrote: That is truly a One step beyond[^]...
FTFY 
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Wonderful encouragement, upvoting ..., and, yes, I took it extremely seriously
working remotely from home since Saturday 14 March ...
BR
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At least we've all retained our humor!
I'm hiding from exercise...I'm in the fitness protection program.
JaxCoder.com
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Just heard back from the people I was undergoing interviews with and they had a positive feedback for my work and they're ready to make a final offer to me. Though I might start a little late because of on-going quarantine but just the news that I got the job is enough to make my day.
P.S. On that note, does that make me the first person to be hired during the bad bad times? That's what they said.
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Thanks.
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All the contracts I had a line on dried up like they'd been hit by a solar flare.
Still, the missus wants a new cold frame, the balcony railing needs replacing, and I've just bought Ni No Kuni 2*, so it's not like I'll be bored.
* There's not really any point in playing "Guess the Priority Item", is there?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Ni No Kuni 2
Still on my list!
Loved Ni No Kuni (played last Christmas).
Finishing Borderlands 3 first though
Maybe I'll save Ni No Kuni 2 until Christmas again.
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I picked up Ni No Kuni cheap for the PS3, after being severely annoyed by Dragon Quest XI -- not because DQ XI is an annoying game (it's nearly as good as DQ VII, and a lot prettier), but because the damned thing kept crashing.
By the time I'd finished Ni No Kuni, a DQ XI patch had been released, and it was playable again -- but the similarities between the two games were so many that I kept forgetting what I was supposed to be doing (and there's an identical section of a castle that appears in both games).
I still haven't finished DQ XI. I can't stand racing games (or anything on a timer -- IMO, games are supposed to be fun, not hard work), and you have to win a bunch of horse races to get the ingredients for the uber-mocha-banana-pomfrey sword, or some such, that you're supposed to use in a long, grinding, hard-work battle against the final boss (which I can live without).
Ni No Kuni 2 is looking good, so far. The story and the gameplay are a lot more polished, and it keeps hinting that there'll be a Suikoden-type element to it (which I see as a good thing).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: after being severely annoyed by Dragon Quest XI
I got both for PS4 so crashes are rare (if I had any at all).
I also played both games last year, so I probably got all patches since the games are a few years old already.
Mark_Wallace wrote: I can't stand racing games (or anything on a timer -- IMO, games are supposed to be fun, not hard work)
Agreed!
Although I can't remember this specific part of DQ XI and I finished it.
Got 100% of the trophies/achievements as well.
The horse races annoyed the hell out of me though 
Mark_Wallace wrote: a Suikoden-type element
Never played Suikoden, but I'm already looking forward to Ni No Kuni 2 
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