Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm today, object-oriented programming (OOP) languages, such as C++ and Java, provide a formal set of rules for creating and managing objects.

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.

The Idea Behind Object Oriented Programming. It’s perhaps best to think of OOP as a design philosophy. With procedural languages there was no connection, no relationship between the data being ...