The Definition Of Object Oriented Programming And Object Oriented Programming

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Contents________________________________________ 1. Object Oriented Programming 1. Object Oriented Programming ________________________________________ Object Oriented Programming (OOP) means any kind of programming that uses a programming language with some object oriented constructs or programming in an environment where some object oriented principles are followed. The concept of "pure" in object orientation is a little subjective and not quite well defined in practice, but there are pure object oriented programming languages. The principles of object orientation on the other hand are well defined. Programming languages are quite nested in complicated materials, and it is hard to say that everything must be an object, since all formal …show more content…

History ________________________________________ Object oriented programming is divided up two categories. • Classic • Modern While this distinction is somewhat arbitrary, we believe it is instructive to consider OOP as it was practiced in the 1980s and early 1990s to demonstrate the motivation for more current practices. 2.1 Classic OOP object oriented programming can be traced back to a language called Simula, and in particular Simula 67, which was popular during the 1960s. By the early 1990s, enough experience had been gained with large OOP projects to discover some limitations. Languages such as Self, ideas like interface programming (also known as component or component-oriented programming), and methodologies such as generic programming were being developed in response to these difficulties. Although often derided by OOP purists, it was the standardization of C++ in 1998 —including generic programming facilities — that really ushered in the modern era of OOP, which we also refer to as Multi-Paradigm programming. This is largely due to the popularity of C++ and the genius of the Standard Template Library (STL) demonstrating the utility of the new methodology to such a large audience. Classic or pure …show more content…

• While Self did not survive to really become a modern OOP language, it was a second generation OOP language. Then, in the early 1990s, Alexander Stepanov and Meng Lee pioneered generic programming and wrote early drafts of C++'s STL. • early 1990s saw the development of CORBA and Microsoft's COM, which was a natural extension of the ideas that had led to the original Windows API. This interface or component programming was a natural extension of encapsulation —a basic tenet of OOP, as we will see. All of these developments were aimed at further managing or reducing complexity. Since this was the original goal of OOP and these techniques are used in conjunction with classic OOP, we find it appropriate to consider them in a treatment on "OOP". Future of OOP The future contains more standardization of functional programming techniques in OOP environments, particularly lambda expressions and closures, and more robust meta-programming constructs. Applying design patterns automatically through generic or meta programming techniques is an interesting

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