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.

Functional programming is sometimes defined in opposition to object-oriented ... 2 makes use of Java 8’s stream library to perform the same task of upper-casing a list of letters.

Senior full-stack engineer Ilya Suzdalnitski has published a lively 6,000 word essay calling object-oriented programming "a trillion ... it rather than the modern Java/C# approach to OOP.

The Java programming language emerged roughly 25 years ago, when Smalltalk and C++ dominated. Back then it was easy to argue that the world didn't need another object-oriented programming language.