> This whole comment section tells me that almost no one on HN really understands OOP.

Or maybe it tells you that the benefits of OOP are different from what they're theoretically supposed to be. What I read from the thread is that there seems to be significant psychological appeal to some in the noun-verb way, and OOP (perhaps unintentionally) satisifies that need. (And that helps me understand the frequent "Julia needs a thing.do() syntax" complaint on the Julia forums, and why telling them "semantically do(thing) does the same thing" doesn't seem to work.)