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    I feel like I understand what you're saying, but I also feel like you have neither agreed nor disagreed with my central thesis: you can't have OOP everywhere. I think you've hinted agreement but I fear that's just my wishful thinking. Commented May 12, 2024 at 3:04
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    @candied_orange Agreed, I had the same feeling when posting. I'd say yes you can't, ultimately, but a follow up interesting question might be, in under what circumstance can you, and most importantly when should you ? Commented May 12, 2024 at 13:06
  • @candied_orange: Hypothetically, if you posit that OOP cannot be deterministically attributed down to each individual line of code in isolation, then your question would effectively be unanswerable. Consider the possibility that there might not be a conclusive yes/no to your answer, simply because it's not that deterministically and granularly defined. Commented May 13, 2024 at 4:07
  • @candied_orange the conclusion “you can't have OOP everywhere” is based on the assumption that there was a set of rules to be strictly followed, to qualify as “object oriented”. That’s just wrong. There is not a single definition of OOP, all people agree on. Commented May 13, 2024 at 11:11
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    @pjc50 So Holger can talk past me and double down but I can't? Aw man. Fine. I'll stick to a strictly necessary hostile approach. Commented May 13, 2024 at 14:19