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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I do not understand why people like you say templates are unwanted baggage.

Do you seriously think generic parametric polymorphism is a bad thing? Have you completely ignored the past 30 years of language development? Or do you just not fucking want to understand how templates work?

Of all the ridiculous features in C++, templates are just about the only useful one.