A procedure (or function) is a discreet unit of logic which performs a task give a certain input. After procedural and structured programming came object oriented programming.

“Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) has been created with one goal in mind -- to manage the complexity of procedural codebases.

So I have been writing code of one sort or another for over 15 years (mostly Perl) and there is still one thing I don’t get ... what is the advantage of object oriented programming (OOP) over ...

Academic researchers have published a study investigating the effect of programming languages on software quality, concluding the issue is hard to quantify but also identifying significant findings, ...

While Cobol has procedural roots, a spokesperson says that it first developed an object oriented version of Cobol 1997. Object oriented Cobol went on to become an ISO standard in 2002, according ...

Academic researchers have published a study investigating the effect of programming languages on software quality, concluding the issue is hard to quantify but also identifying significant findings, ...