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For all its blemishes it's still the most natural way to represent the concept of "user-defined data type" in a procedural language.

"Modeling the world as OOP", OTOH, is a load of bull.

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"It should be clear to anyone that models of the world are completely different from models of software. The world does not consist of objects sending each other messages, and we would have to be seriously mesmerised by object jargon to believe that it does.

… we use different sets of building blocks for modelling the world and modelling the software …"

1994 "Designing Object Systems"

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Designing_Object_System...

What software would you use if you wanted to model the world?

Sorry, I'm not up-to-date with modelling software.

ANSYS, Dymola, Simulink, FAST, CESM, Drake, to name a few.

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