Object Oriented Programming

As a novice programmer and as someone who started learning programming with C, OOP just seems annoying to me. Seems as though it's easier to accomplish the same tasks without it. Is it actually necessary to learn it?

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ust take a couple of PLs with support for both ``kinds'' of OOP (e. g. C++ and Smalltalk)
What, the broken kind and the actual kind? If you want to learn OOP, you should know about Smalltalk style and CLOS style. Factor comes with some good examples of the latter. But don't get mixed up with C++ until you understand OO. The system there is pretty WTF and includes features (the whole public/private/protected system) that are really only relevant when you're working with morons or are a moron.

Don't inherit too much.