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 ...

(1) For the languages used in AI, see AI programming languages. (2) A language used to write computer instructions. A programming language lets the programmer express data processing in a symbolic ...

Functions are fundamental to code organization; they exist in all higher order programming languages. Generally, functional programming means using functions to the best effect for creating clean and ...