I haven’t written a line of code in over five years, but I remember when OOP first came out. I was writing in C for DOS machines and loving it. Then I tried to learn OOP. The concept was great, but for every line of code in C, I was writing a page in C++. Encapsulation and Polymorphism? Who cares? I could write every new program from scratch and still come out ahead.
When I couldn’t exist in the DOS world anymore, I crawled back home to BASIC with Visual Basic and never looked back.