Sometimes, object oriented programming is the right choice

I posted this article because it has interesting proglang discussion but I only partly grokked it.<p>My comment is a desire to understand why people want to encapsulate state with the data and not just break down and do more functional first code. Less &quot;ya&#x27;ll should learn the ML way&quot; and more &quot;WHY is object oriented the default and not functional.&quot;