>A lot of the recent trend towards OOP-bashing comes from bad implementations of OOP, just as bashing design patterns is more to do with badly thought out architectures and overuse of those patterns.
sorry, but this is no true Scotsman fallacy. All these "bad implementations" is OOP, real OOP, not some idealized ephemeral non-existent Avalon. If an idea easily and more frequently than not lands itself to the bad implementations then there is something wrong with the idea. (I happen to come from a country which was pursuing what was looking like a pretty good idea - communism - which has got a lot of bashing during recent decades, due to "bad implementations" i guess, and as result it was critically rethought and now we know what it is not a good idea really)
sorry, but this is no true Scotsman fallacy. All these "bad implementations" is OOP, real OOP, not some idealized ephemeral non-existent Avalon. If an idea easily and more frequently than not lands itself to the bad implementations then there is something wrong with the idea. (I happen to come from a country which was pursuing what was looking like a pretty good idea - communism - which has got a lot of bashing during recent decades, due to "bad implementations" i guess, and as result it was critically rethought and now we know what it is not a good idea really)