I started programming (like a lot of people) after I bought one of those "Learn C++ FAST!" books (I don't remember the actual title).
A large chunk of this book was about the object-oriented part of C++, and comparing it to the equivalent version in C, and acted that since the only two paradigms that exist are OOP and imperative, you should always use OOP. (NOTE: I'm paraphrasing, that was the tl;dr as I remember it from 18 years ago).
Later, when I was 19 (around 2010), I was on an IRC board and someone was talking about how cool Haskell was, and when I asked him to explain why it was better than C++, he went into elaborate detail about how "C++ is total bullshit because you have to mix your types with your functions". He then went on elaborate detail (that went completely over my head at the time) about how Haskell's typechecker made C++'s look like "dogshit".
Maybe I am too suggestible, but at that moment I agreed with him, and have kept that mentality ever since. I fundamentally do not like attaching methods to my structs/records/whatever, since I think that forces strong and unnecessary coupling. I do really hate the type systems of Java and C++ because I think they're restrictive and don't actually help.
Obviously opinions vary; a lot of very smart people really like Java and C++, but I seriously cannot personally understand why. I feel like I get more done quicker with Clojure than I ever could with Java, and I have trouble comprehending anyone who says otherwise.
I'm not trying to start any kind of flame war; if you like OOP we can still be friends, I'm not judging you as a person, I just disagree with your language choice :)
A large chunk of this book was about the object-oriented part of C++, and comparing it to the equivalent version in C, and acted that since the only two paradigms that exist are OOP and imperative, you should always use OOP. (NOTE: I'm paraphrasing, that was the tl;dr as I remember it from 18 years ago).
Later, when I was 19 (around 2010), I was on an IRC board and someone was talking about how cool Haskell was, and when I asked him to explain why it was better than C++, he went into elaborate detail about how "C++ is total bullshit because you have to mix your types with your functions". He then went on elaborate detail (that went completely over my head at the time) about how Haskell's typechecker made C++'s look like "dogshit".
Maybe I am too suggestible, but at that moment I agreed with him, and have kept that mentality ever since. I fundamentally do not like attaching methods to my structs/records/whatever, since I think that forces strong and unnecessary coupling. I do really hate the type systems of Java and C++ because I think they're restrictive and don't actually help.
Obviously opinions vary; a lot of very smart people really like Java and C++, but I seriously cannot personally understand why. I feel like I get more done quicker with Clojure than I ever could with Java, and I have trouble comprehending anyone who says otherwise.
I'm not trying to start any kind of flame war; if you like OOP we can still be friends, I'm not judging you as a person, I just disagree with your language choice :)