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?

>>76
Operator overloading, just like Sepples itself, can be good if used correctly. For example, the string class uses operators in a pretty intuitive way.

And what's wrong with templates?

>>77
Sure, if you think that left-shifting things onto a stream to print them is "intuitive".

And what's wrong with templates?
It introduces what's basically an additional language with totally different binding semantics. That's a lot of complexity to deal with.