I was not involved in programming back then, so I won't comment on why OO came to be accepted.

But I disagree on the theory that OO reflects Real Life very well.

The big thing that OO does is provide a way to organize logical models of a system which provides natural lines along which to modularize, encapsulate, and reuse behaviour. However in providing ways to organize your mental models, it also channels them. Those channels very often do not really fit the messy ways that people work in real life. People's models tend to contain parallel, conflicting classifications, are full of nasty little exceptions, and tend to adjust over time to fit a changing understanding of the world. And so it takes some experience with OO to be able to produce designs that avoid common design mistakes.

And this is an issue that I am very aware of personally. My mental models often do not map particularly well onto an OO framework. As a result, for me OO programming sometimes feels like working in a straight-jacket...

In reply to Re (tilly) 14: Perl6 headaches? by tilly
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