[Click on image for larger view.] Categorizing Programming Languages (source: ACM) Here are some related statements on that issue, culled from the report (noting that the researchers lumped ...

Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a long list of commands (instructions). In imperative programming, you write your code the way you ...

“Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) has been created with one goal in mind -- to manage the complexity of procedural codebases. In other words, it was supposed to improve code organisation ...

So I have been writing code of one sort or another for over 15 years (mostly Perl) and there is still one thing I don’t get ... what is the advantage of object oriented programming (OOP) over ...

In this week’s story, Cobol: Not Dead Yet, I wrote that Cobol is “…a procedural language in an object-oriented world.” The folks at MIcro Focus point out that, technically, this is no ...