In my experience, OOP makes programs different. Might be bigger or smaller, but the real difference is complexity. Not in that it makes things more or less complex, but in that it moves the complexity around to different places. Those places being complex (and others simpler) might make it easier or harder to maintain your program, which is what makes these decisions highly dependent on your particular systems and teams.
There is a difference. OOP is just one of many tools to help accomplish a task. Many other tools as well. It is up to the people how to use tools for a job and what tools for what job. You equating OOP with the dangerous things that should be kept away has no basis in programming.
The way people use OOP causes them to move the complexity in a particular way. That's why the distinction doesn't make a difference in this context. You're right, technically it wasn't OOP that was writing the code, it was the person. We would have never figured that out without your guidance, we all just though OOP was banging away on the keyboard.
Why? I wrote it, I know exactly what it means. Maybe you should take a closer look? If everyone who uses OOP moves the complexity in the same way because they're adhering to OOP, then it is a distinction without a difference because the complexity is moved regardless. It's a nuanced concept so don't beat yourself up if you don't understand.
I want taking a side here, just noting a tradeoff inherent to the choice in programming paradigm. When you make effective abstractions, you make your program bendy in all the right places. It's easy to add new objects where you will need them, and it's easy to extend behavior in places you need to do that.
Of course, if you guess wrong, you're totally fucked. Well, either that, or you are smart and see it coming in time to rewrite the code that put the complexity in the wrong place.
Hope that helps with the context. I'm not some anti-OOP zealot, and those do exist.
I am in total agreement with what you've just said. Basically it all comes down to programmer being either smart or stupid. OOP on its own has nothing to do with the overall complexity and where it is "moved". Shitty programmer will fuck things up no matter paradigm. And good programmer can use various paradigms to their advantage depending on particular situation. But no. From what I see we have crusaders here.
