We need a good flamewar in here.

Thus! Object-oriented programming: Does it suck or what?

Ruby lol

just imagine what ruby would be without OO concepts! instead of

if patterns.any? {|pattern| elementAtHand =~ pattern}
    # do stuff
end

you'd be writing, taking some pseudocode as an example,

my $atLeastOnePatternMatches;
foreach(@patterns) {if ($elementAtHand =~ $_) {$atLeastOnePatternMatches = true; last}}
if ($atLeastOnePatternMatches) { 
    #do stuff
}

or something. this would be just like writing in perl! think about it for a minute and the answer to the initial question should become clear.

faps to NeXTSTEP