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.
   * Once I was on a space salvage crew, we got a distress call from a planet. This OO thing popped out of an egg and hugged this guys face, what followed wasn't pretty. We then drove it away by using procedural code.

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