Who are the outspoken critics of Object-Oriented design?

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Sure, object-oriented techniques are great and have stuck around for a while. I know only less than a handful of critics of the OO principles.

It seems as though most non-OO designs and architectures are shunned, yet we continue to write a lot of good software in C and solve a lot of data changes via awk/sed and countless other examples. Correct tool for the correct job, yes?

I'm having a hard time finding articles, presentations, or published criticisms of OO (even Fred Brooks has blessed information hiding). Are there any well-known, published and/or outspoken critics of OO?

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