[sfk]

Most software engineers think about problems in bureaucratic (object-oriented) ways and not in formal ways, because they have been ruined by their "training".

Once they have a job, they discover that convoluted OO code bases offer great job security, so nothing will ever change.

[vidarh]

No matter how much you might dislike those ways of coding, they are still vastly more formalized that how most people are used to dealing with problem solving.