An oracle for object-oriented programmers
Friday, October 7, 2011 - 05:30
in Mathematics & Economics
In the last 40 years, the major innovation in software engineering has been the development of what are called object-oriented programming languages. Objects are, effectively, repositories for the computational details of a program, which let the programmer concentrate on the big picture. A complex computer program, with millions of lines of code, can be distilled into some fairly intuitive interactions between objects.