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I'm not sure I agree that STL that containers are explicitly not OO.

That said, I don't disagree that C++ can support functional programming. I would just argue there are languages better suited for this.

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The author of the first STL has famously said that, even after all these decades, he has never written any C++ code that uses OO inheritance, because he hasn't found a use for it.

The STL is mainly a generic library, not an OO library.

Yes, Stepanov is not exactly an OO fan. This interview with him, were he declared that "OO is an Hoax", is great:

http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html

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