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object-oriented - definition and meaning
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective (Computers) Using data structures called objects, which encapsulate data and typically are accessed by passing messages, which in turn may trigger internal procedures within the object which are invisible outside the object.
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adjective computing, programming Using entities called objects that can process data and exchange messages with other objects.
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I call it object-oriented social, but I have been accused of being a nerd for doing so.
Forbes.com: News R Ray" Wang 2011
Note that object-oriented programming is based on the idea of hiding and protecting as much information as possible between modules.
Bundling II, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
The only common feature in terms of programming tools amongst modelers is a universal HATRED of object-oriented programming languages, particularly python.
What makes software engineering for climate models different? | Serendipity 2010
I did consider building my model in R, but ultimately chose Python, almost entirely on the basis that it is object-oriented .
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I preferred Head First Design Patterns to theGoF book (Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software).
A Confession – Reading About Design Patterns : KillerCodingNinjaBunny 2009
Which is why object-oriented is such a paradigm shift -- the main breakthrough is how much information it hides.
Bundling II, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
Naval Academy graduate and lead engineer at Mitre Corp., “focusing on object-oriented systems development and legacy systems integration.”
CIA mum on lawsuit alleging drone targeting errors Jeff Stein 2010
The technology guarantees "deterministic semantics" without runtime checks for general-purpose, object-oriented programs, the university said.
Java extensions boost development of parallel apps Paul Krill 2010
Liskov's work helped pioneer what is known as object-oriented programming, now the most common approach to software development.
Barbara Liskov wins the 2008 Turing Award Peggy 2009
I also realise that Design Patterns resulted in some big advances in object-oriented programming in general, and without it Head First Design Patterns would never have come into being.
A Confession – Reading About Design Patterns : KillerCodingNinjaBunny 2009
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