As I read some algorithms textbooks, they are full of clever procedures for some problems (sorting, shortest path) or some general methods (recursive algorithms, divide and conquer, dynamic programming...). I found few traces of object oriented programming there; if none.

Then I was thinking:

• What is the relation between algorithms and OOP? Are they two independent topics?
• How OOP can help algorithms? Or in which direction it can affect it?
• Are there some problems which only can be presented and solved by OOP?
• Why algorithms textbook are more procedure-oriented?