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Thanks. I edited my comment to try making it more clear. Another very important point that was mentioned here is that programming paradigms are not mutually exclusive. The author of this post seems to create a false dichotomy between procedural and OO programming.

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That wasn't my intention at all. I'm sorry if that's how it came across. It's just that I got tired of seeing people refer to code as procedural because it uses functions, and refer to code as OOP because it uses classes. I was just trying to point out that the approach is different from the tools that you use to implement the approach...

I think it's true that you can encode OOP objects in any number of languages, but OOP really is about the objects. If your encoding isn't little bundles of methods, it's not OOP, even if it uses the other general techniques you've listed: abstraction, modularity, etc.

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