One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...

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Anything, and I mean ANYTHING, can be abused in coding. Your prefered style, paradigm, or TLA of the minute is not an exception. If you can dream it I can abuse it. If you judge a feature of a ...

In computer science, object-oriented programming, OOP for short, is a computer programming paradigm. The idea behind object-oriented programming is that a computer program may be seen as composed of a ...

Yes, it is poor practice. From the perspective of performance optimization in .NET, boxing hits performance and reflection _really_ hits performance. Like others have pointed out, if you want code ...

Object-oriented programming is finally starting to look promising. For anyone who’s been following this technology, a statement like that is enough to evoke loud groans. Object-oriented programming, a ...