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Before Object Oriented Programming One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not.

Fancy word: encapsulation You can see in the above code sample how the dog object keeps all the properties together. In object-oriented programming, there is a fancy word for this: encapsulation.

Proponents of object-oriented techniques point to the flexibility and extensibility of object-oriented systems along with other benefits such as increased modularity, abstraction, and encapsulation.

Many LabVIEW programmers already perform object-oriented programming (OOP). The basic building block is the VI, which is comparable to a subroutine with multiple input and output parameters.