begood Posted October 30, 2011 Report Posted October 30, 2011 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.http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-oracle-object-oriented-programmers.html Quote