Moving from Procedural to Object-Oriented Development
Now that we have a general understanding about some of the differences about procedural and object-oriented technologies, let’s delve a bit deeper into both.
Procedural Programming
Procedural programming normally separates the data of a system from the operations that manipulate the data. For example, if you want to send information across a network, only the relevant data is sent (see Figure 1.4), with the expectation that the program at the other end of the network pipe knows what to do with it. In other words, some sort of handshaking agreement must be in place between the client and server to transmit the data. In this model, it is quite possible that no code is actually sent over the ...
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