The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. Each month, we examine ...

A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...

JavaScript is a flexible language, allowing for all sorts of styles and programming paradigms. Although this breadth sometimes comes at a cost to readability or consistency across a code base, it also ...

This paper reviews some programming techniques in R that have proved useful, particularly for substantial projects. These include several versions of object-oriented programming, used in a large ...

It's not good enough to simply write code that works. That code must be easily maintained, enhanced and debugged when problems happen. One of the reasons why object-oriented programming is so popular ...

Users are advised to get on board with object-oriented programming sooner rather than later, because OOP is the future. Martin Buchwitz is editor of SPS Magazin in Germany. SPS Magazin has ...