A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...

(1) A programming language that is object oriented. See object-oriented programming. (2) A language defined by another language. See metalanguage. (3) The output of a compiler or assembler program.

Computer programs can use data, evaluate if-then conditions on the data and use extremely fast iterative loops to perform these functions. In software programs, these functions get organized into ...