Waste of time says, full-stack engineer Senior full-stack engineer Ilya Suzdalnitski has published a lively 6,000 word essay calling object-oriented programming "a trillion dollar disaster".

Functional programming is sometimes defined in opposition to object-oriented programming (OOP) and procedural programming.

So I have been writing code of one sort or another for over 15 years (mostly Perl) and there is still one thing I don’t get ... what is the advantage of object oriented programming (OOP) over ...

Popular programming paradigms include imperative, procedural and Object Orientated Programming (OOP).