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.

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.

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