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I was sick of Object Oriented programming the first moment I had to deal with an API built with OO that replaced a previous API without it.

It was the WordPerfect 6 something language, replacing the WP5.1 macro language.

I had built a perfectly reasonable autocorrection engine, it handled typos, misplaced commas and periods, adding accents, and a few things more.

The Object Oriented macro language in WP6 removed any possibility to make my macros work, in exchange for adding silly graphic buttons.

Now I like C++ and D, but they are not 'pure OO'. Therefore I hate Java.

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