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.

Today, C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic.NET and Python are popular object-oriented languages. The following compares basic OOP terms with traditional programming. See object-oriented DBMS.

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