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 or procedural programming is much better for these purposes. Still, there are developers who try to implement these things as pure functions and blow their code up to dozens of ...

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 ...

Popular programming paradigms include imperative, procedural and Object Orientated Programming (OOP).

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 ...