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Programming languages have changed a great deal since the first days of application development. Back in the day, procedural languages were state-of-the-art; as a matter of fact, there are still thousands of COBOL applications in use today. As time went on, coding became more efficient; and reuse, encapsulation, abstraction, and other object-oriented characteristics became fundamental keys to application development. As languages evolved, they began to incorporate the idea of using objects within programs. The Lisp language introduced some object-oriented techniques as early as the 1970s, but true object-oriented programming did not take off in full blast until the 1990s.
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© 2012 Josh Juneau, Carl Dea, Freddy Guime, and John O’Conner
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Juneau, J., Dea, C., Guime, F., O’Conner, J. (2012). Object-Oriented Java. In: Java 7 Recipes. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4057-0_7
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