Object-oriented programming language

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An object-oriented programming language (also called an OOP language) is one that allows or encourages, to some degree, object-oriented programming techniques such as encapsulation, inheritance, modularity, and polymorphism. Simula (1967) is generally accepted as the first language to have the primary features of an object-oriented language. It was created for making simulation programs, in which what came to be called objects were the most important information representation. Smalltalk (1972 to 1980) is arguably the canonical example, and the one with which much of the theory of object-oriented programming was developed.

• Languages called "pure" OO languages, because everything in them is treated consistently as an object, from primitives such as characters and punctuation, all the way up to whole classes, prototypes, blocks, modules, etc. They were designed specifically to facilitate, even enforce, OO methods. Examples: Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ruby
• Languages designed mainly for OO programming, but with some procedural elements. Examples: C++, Java, Python.
• Languages that are historically procedural languages, but have been extended with some OO features. Examples: Fortran 2003, Perl, COBOL 2002.
• Languages with most of the features of objects (classes, methods, inheritance, reusability), but in a distinctly original form. Examples: Oberon (Oberon-1 or Oberon-2).
• Languages with abstract data type support, but not all features of object-orientation, sometimes called object-based languages. Examples: Modula-2 (with excellent encapsulation and information hiding), Pliant, CLU.

[edit] Languages with object-oriented features

ABAP Ada 95 AmigaE PortablE BETA Blue Boo C++ C# COBOL Cobra ColdFusion Common Lisp COOL CorbaScript Clarion CLU Curl D Delphi (Object Pascal) Dylan E Eiffel Sather Falcon F-Script F# Fortran 2003 Gambas Graphtalk IDLscript incr Tcl J JADE Java Groovy Join Java X10 Lasso Lava Lexico Lingo MATLAB MathScriptor Modula-2 Modula-3 Nemerle NetRexx Oberon (Oberon-1) Oberon-2 Object REXX Objective-C Objective Caml

Omnis Studio Oz Mozart Programming System Perl 5 PHP Pliant PRM Prototype-based languages Actor-Based Concurrent Language, ABCL: ABCL/1, ABCL/R, ABCL/R2, ABCL/c+ Agora Cecil Cel ECMAScript ActionScript JavaScript JScript Etoys in Squeak Io Lua Lisaac MOO NewtonScript Obliq REBOL Self Python REALbasic Revolution Ruby Scala SenseTalk Simula Smalltalk Self Bistro Squeak S (programming language) R (programming language) Squirrel Superx++ TADS Ubercode Visual Basic VB.NET VBScript VBA Visual FoxPro Visual Prolog Tcl Xotcl similar to CLOS Snit uses delegation itcl similar to C++ XBase plus plus Extends xBase Standard Language ZZT-oop

[edit] Implementing designs expressed in UML

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a language-agnostic, non-proprietary modeling language that can be used to design object-oriented systems. It is generally regarded as the complete specification of OO, as an abstract design expressed in UML can ideally be implemented in any OO programming languages.

UML specifies, among other things, a set of component types and relationships. There is currently no OO language that inherently (i.e. without significant manual effort) supports the full OO capability. Features typically lacking include:

• Correct behaviour for the various component relationships (aggregation, composition).
• Polymorphism on message arguments.

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