Here are some related statements on that issue, culled from the report (noting that the researchers lumped object-oriented languages among procedural languages): It does appear that disallowing type ...

For the vast majority of programming tasks, things like maintainability, reliability, security, extensibility (and other exciting keywords!) are more ...

While it might be acceptable to mutate a member variable in procedural or object-oriented programming, in functional programming it's frowned upon to change the state of a variable outside the scope ...

Functional programming is sometimes defined in opposition to object-oriented programming (OOP) and procedural programming. That is misleading as these approaches are not mutually exclusive and ...

“Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) has been created with one goal in mind -- to manage the complexity of procedural codebases. In other words, it was supposed to improve code organisation ...