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 ...

“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 ...

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

Porting procedural code, such as C, to an object-oriented framework can be overwhelming to architects new to object-oriented design. However, once you’ve completed the move, you can take ...

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 ...