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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A programming language that does not inherently support modules containing data and associated processing (objects). All early languages were non-object languages. For example, C is non-object, but ...

A database that is managed by an object-oriented database management system (ODBMS). Object databases are closely aligned with a particular object-oriented programming language and enable the data in ...

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design is a course that presents an introduction to the design and construction of software systems using techniques that view a system as a set of objects that work ...

When object-oriented programming languages began to be used in enterprise applications, designers had problems fitting the object-oriented model with the relational model. In the object-oriented model ...

PHP 3 was released in mid-1998. Some basic object-oriented (OO) capabilities were included, more or less as an afterthought, to "provide new ways of accessing arrays." 1 No significant changes were ...

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 ...