Here is a summary of several excellent reasons why TIP #257 should be rejected:

   * An object system fell asleep on my brother's face when he was an infant, causing him to suffocate.  (He got better when he began to use procedural techniques.)
   * OO causes cancer.
   * OO programmers steal all of our parking spaces.
   * OO is bad because someone, somewhere, might have fun with it (the Puritan counterargument)
   * I don't need OO.  I also don't need non-english languages, so the I8N support should go too.
   * OO makes baby jesus cry.

If you think of any more, please feel free to add them here.