I believe object-orientation is dated

I don't know how many advances might be happening recently on some underground Smalltalk mailing-list, but in general, OOP has remained the same for decades.

Does everybody think it's good enough? Does nobody want new features that will make your code more expressive somehow? Watcha think?

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I know. I'm going to admit I haven't studied many other paradigms, but I surely believe there are improvements that could be made to OOP.

For example, not all relationships in the world can be expressed as HAS-A / IS-A, and I shouldn't have to dump OOP just because of that.

I personally consider something I call "private IS-A"; basically that would be an interface to an object that can only be acquired under certain circumstances.

The whole point is, I don't usually see people talking about what could be improved in OOP or added to it. People just talk about using OOP. Where's the metathinking?