Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

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

It is evidently necessary to generate and test candidates for solutions in some systematic manner.

Professors typically spend their time in meetings about planning, policy, proposals, fund-raising, consulting, interviewing, traveling, and so forth, but spend relatively little time at their drawing boards. As a result, they lose touch with the substance of their rapidly developing subject. They lose the ability to design; they lose sight of what is essential; and they resign themselves to teach academically challenging puzzles.

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.

Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.