13. Objects in Web Services, Mobile Apps, and Hybrids
Perhaps the major reason that objects have become so popular in the software development community today has to do with the Internet. Although object-oriented languages have been around basically as long as structured languages, it was only when the Internet emerged that objects gained wide acceptance. Now, objects are the paradigm of choice for virtually all primary networks today, from the Internet to mobile networks—even the transmission of content such as entertainment and game media to the home via well established infrastructure such as cable and local phone lines.
Although objects were not necessarily in the mainstream until relatively recently (since the late 1990s), the object-oriented ...
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