> The STL was a last-minute addition to the standard library before C++98.

C++ without a standard C++ library is not really C++.

> No, it was because Bjarne wanted features from Simula whilst still generating fast code.

Yeah, but Simula is somewhat its own thing, before the OOP madness.

> Again, look at Qt. Look at CERN's ROOT. Java looks a lot like it does because that's how C++ code was written at the time.

Only because C++ was the only thing available at the time, so people twisted it into 'OOP', despite the fact that C++ was very a poor fit for 'OOP'.