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 ...

(1) A programming language that is object oriented. See object-oriented programming. (2) A language defined by another language. See metalanguage. (3) The output of a compiler or assembler program.

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 ...