Object-oriented programming (or OOP ... line of code—instead of having to update every object individually. As explained in a different laundry analogy, objects encapsulate complexity.

Simula, an acronym for Simulation Language, is touted as the first object-oriented programming language created by Norwegian ...

Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm today, object-oriented programming (OOP) languages, such as C++ and Java, provide a formal set of rules for creating and managing objects.

With the 1995 revision, the language also targeted general purpose systems and added support for object-oriented programming (OOP) while not losing sight of the core values of reliability ...