Unfortunate Features of OOP

• OOP tends to require that everything be objects. Hard to use with existing systems.

• Reusing generic procedures is not easy:
  • Programmer must know method name and arguments.

  • Arguments must respond appropriately to all messages that may be sent to them by the method or anything it calls.

  • Methods may produce unexpected and unwanted side-effects.

• Slow in execution.
  • Method lookup overhead

  • Opacity of objects prevents optimization across messages.

  • A layered object structure compounds the problem.
  Some OOP systems ``succeed'' but have to be discarded and rewritten for efficiency.

• System structure becomes baroque and hard to change (just the opposite of what is advertised).