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    Can't believe this answer has no votes (well, you have one now). This might be a simple example, but when OO is abused enough you get service classes that turn into nightmares containing tons of functionality that should have been encapsulated in classes. Commented Feb 28, 2012 at 17:21
  • "by old C/C++ programmers who have never made the transision (sic) to OO" ? C++ programmers usually are pretty OO, as it's an OO language, i.e. the whole point of using C++ instead of C. Commented Apr 15, 2018 at 21:06
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    @nappyfalcon Writing code in an OO language doesn't necessarily make it OO code; many C++ programmers sure try for OO, but it should be clear that they don't automatically succeed. Also note C++ is general-purpose paradigm, not OO exclusively. Commented Oct 22, 2022 at 12:50
  • @nappyfalcon C++ is also C and those old programmers actually made a transition from C to C++ by either transforming existing C code, at least to some degree, or starting new C++ projects with experience, habits, and a mindset rooting in C programming. A lot of beginner level C++ books started with the basics of C before they got to C++. There is nothing in the C++ language that forces you to write OO code. Even languages like Java just force you to put everything into classes, which doesn't automatically lead to OO code. On the other hand there is C code that is very much OO. Commented Dec 5, 2022 at 14:14