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?

>>82
I'm a Unix fan, and I hate TeX dashes. In an ASCII-only context I can put up with two dashes as a substitute for an em dash and one as a substitute for an en dash, but that's it. I don't know why you think this behavior is more common in Unix fans, or why you think >>81 is anything but a Windows user who blew in from the imageboards.