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===Real-world modeling and relationships===

OOP can be used to associate real-world objects and processes with digital counterparts. However, not everyone agrees that OOP facilitates direct real-world mapping (see [[#Criticism|Criticism]] section) or that real-world mapping is even a worthy goal; [[Bertrand Meyer]] argues in ''[[Object-Oriented Software Construction]]''<ref name="Meyer230">Meyer, Second Edition, p. 230</ref> that a program is not a model of the world but a model of some part of the world; "Reality is a cousin twice removed". At the same time, some principal limitations of OOP have been noted.<ref>M.Trofimov, ''OOOP – The Third "O" Solution: Open OOP.'' First Class, [[Object Management Group|OMG]], 1993, Vol. 3, issue 3, p.14.</ref>

For example, the [[circle-ellipse problem]] is difficult to handle using OOP's concept of [[inheritance (object-oriented programming)|inheritance]].