Editing Procedural programming (section)

=== Object-oriented programming ===

Also classified as imperative, [[object-oriented programming]] (OOP) involves dividing a program implementation into objects that expose behavior (methods) and data (members) via a well-defined interface. In contrast, procedural programming is about dividing the program implementation into [[variable (programming)|variables]], [[data structure]]s, and [[subroutine]]s. An important distinction is that while procedural involves procedures to operate on data structures, OOP bundles the two together. An object is a data structure and the behavior associated with that data structure.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://neonbrand.com/procedural-programming-vs-object-oriented-programming-a-review/
|title=Procedural programming vs object-oriented programming
|publisher=neonbrand.com
|access-date=2013-08-19
|last=Stevenson
|first=Joseph
|date=August 2013
}}</ref>

Some OOP languages support the class concept which allows for creating an object based on a definition.

Nomenclature varies between the two, although they have similar semantics:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width=33% |Procedural
! width=33% |Object-oriented
|-
| Procedure
| [[Method (computer science)|Method]]
|-
| [[Record (computer science)|Record]]
| Object
|-
| Module
| Class
|-
| Procedure call
| Message
|}