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paradigm comparison table

Subject	have feature	work well	helps	work badly	organize	has definition	hide	provide	have fundamental units
object orientation						A near-synonym for the object-oriented paradigm
object-oriented paradigm	polymorphism		to ensure communicational cohesion		code into classes that each contain procedures for manipulating instances of that class alone	An approach to software design and programming in which software is primarily thought of as a collection of classes that each have responsibilities for various operations, and which are instantiated at run time to create objects			objects
procedural paradigm		if the program's purpose is to perform complex calculations with relatively simple data		if the program's purpose is to perform calculations on complex data	code into procedures that each manipulate different types of data	An approach to software design and programming in which software is primarily thought of as a hierarchy of procedures - the root of the hierarchy is typically a main procedure, which calls other procedures, etc. (in contrast to the object-oriented paradigm)	many of the details of computations	procedural abstraction

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