Word info

object-oriented

Adjective

Meaning

object-oriented (comparative more object-oriented, superlative most object-oriented)

(programming) Using entities called objects that can process data and exchange messages with other objects.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet) Alan Kay

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing. Rob Pike

In object-oriented analysis, we seek to model the world by identifying the classes and objects that form the vocabulary of the problem domain, and in object-oriented design, we invent the abstractions and mechanisms that provide the behavior that this model requires. Grady Booch

Object-oriented programming is a method of implementation in which programs are organized as cooperative collections of objects, each of which represents an instance of some class, and whose classes are all members of a hierarchy of classes united via inheritance relationships. Grady Booch

Whereas object-oriented analysis typically focuses upon one specific problem at a time, domain analysis seeks to identify the classes and objects that are common to all applications within a given domain, such as missile avionics systems, compilers, or accounting software. Grady Booch

In a quality object-oriented software system, you will find many classes that speak the language of the domain expert. Grady Booch

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