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For example, the [[circle-ellipse problem]] is difficult to handle using OOP's concept of [[inheritance (object-oriented programming)|inheritance]].
However, [[Niklaus Wirth]] (who popularized the adage now known as [[Wirth's law]]: "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster") said of OOP in his paper, "Good Ideas through the Looking Glass", "This paradigm closely reflects the structure of systems 'in the real world', and it is therefore well suited to model complex systems with complex behaviours"<ref>{{cite journal |title=Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass |journal=[[Computer (magazine)|Computer]] |year=2006 |last=Wirth |first=
[[Steve Yegge]] and others noted that natural languages lack the OOP approach of strictly prioritizing ''things'' (objects/[[noun]]s) before ''actions'' (methods/[[verb]]s).<ref name="executioniKoN">{{Cite web| first = Steve| last=Yegge |title = Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns| date=30 March 2006|access-date=3 July 2010| publisher = steve-yegge.blogspot.com| url=http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html}}</ref> This problem may cause OOP to suffer more convoluted solutions than procedural programming.<ref name="executioniKoN2">{{Cite web| first = Timothy| last= Boronczyk |title = What's Wrong with OOP| date=11 June 2009|access-date=3 July 2010| publisher = zaemis.blogspot.com| url=http://zaemis.blogspot.com/2009/06/whats-wrong-with-oop.html}}</ref>
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