While on analogies, I like to think of a general purpose programming language as paper and myself - the programmer - as an origami artist. Papers come in different sizes, materials, thickness, elasticity, etc. with each better suited for a certain class of origami. When considering very similar papers, the outcome is more dependent on the artist than on the paper.

This also allows the possibility that it is possible to do great art with scrap paper or to crumple up a beautiful sheet of handmade paper. OOP/FP/etc are like various folding techniques.