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"If you look back at where object orientation came from with Smalltalk-80 with message passing, and look at the current state of inheritance and things like that, have we gone down the wrong path ...

Why does Java's standard class library contain empty interfaces like Cloneable and Serializable? Find out why in this sixth installment in the "Object-oriented language basics" series. You'll also ...

Functional programming supports well-defined, defensible software giving reproducible results. Object-oriented programming is the mechanism par excellence for managing complexity while keeping things ...

This third edition of Python 3 Object-Oriented Programming fully explains classes, data encapsulation, and exceptions for developing well-designed software. Temporarily free to download!

The basics of object-oriented programming (OOP) were there -- you could create a class and single inheritance was supported. With the release of PHP 5 in 2004 there was plenty of room for improving ...

Object-oriented databases play nicely with object-oriented programming languages. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data ...