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A nice list of features, and you can apply it to nearly every hype we observe (today e.g. AI, or memory safety, or climate, or gender, etc.). There doesn't seem to be a good idea or intention that doesn't eventually lead to Cargo Cult; seems to be part of human nature. And Cargo Cult has various forms and intensities, right up to sects and totalitarian social systems. OO is just a way to structure code, no more, no less.



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