One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...

In the world of high-level programming languages, developers constantly deal with ** [object/struct]** types of highly ...

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

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Note: The original 1995 white paper on Java’s 7 benefits actually said that “Java is interpreted ...

Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer of ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

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 ...