Echoes from the Machine
Object-Oriented Programming — what it promised, what it delivered, what it broke, and what we quietly kept anyway
A Note Before We Begin
This is not a literature review. It is not a polished academic paper. It is a practitioner’s reckoning — written by someone who spent the better part of the late 1990s and early 2000s deep inside projects that were, in retrospect, genuinely obsessed with Object-Oriented Programming. Not always in the right way.