Four Paradigms

The history of software design and development can be described by this progression of programming paradigms and artifacts:

Paradigm Typical Artifacts
control-oriented flowcharts, Fortran, Algol 60
data-oriented records, Cobol, Pascal
object-oriented classes, Simula, Smalltalk, Java
abstraction-oriented abstract data types, components

Each of these design paradigms absorbs rather than replaces the earlier paradigms, so object-oriented design is a part of abstraction-oriented design.

Once upon a time, object-oriented design and object-oriented programming were the latest buzz.

Nowadays these are all old, time-tested ideas.

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