Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.