There are so many definitions of OOP out there, varying between different books, documentation and articles.

What really defines OOP?

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    Instead of making one big mess, you make multiple smaller messes and stuff them into objects.

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      11 months ago

      Yep. State is bad, so in OOP we take the huge ugly ball of unnecessary state, and we spread it across the program ecosystem as a thin ugly brittle venier of unnecessary state.