Comment by nrds

IME with this sort of thread there is a huge correlation between praising OOP and believing that encapsulation is an identifying feature of OOP. Also polymorphism to a much lesser extent, but the other two almost none.

It is very difficult to tell whether this is a definitional problem - people believe any kind of encapsulation is OOP - or if some people can't wrap their heads around how to do encapsulation without message passing and the rest.