What is the opposite of OOP?
Procedural Programming is one of the other forms used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_programming
There is no such thing. OOP is a concept built on top of procedural programming, there is no opposite rather there is a choice of writing in OO or not.
These answers are all wrong ... and that is a VERY good question ... and the answer is .... "AOP" - i.e. an "Algorithmic Oriented Programming" entirely based on the "algorithm" being at the very centre of the concept - in an AOP the "data" or an "object" or "objects"are simply "passed to the algorithm" - i.e. THE ALGORITHM IS ENTIRELY KING (it "knows" what to do with the data) - the data carries around "nothing".
In fact "we" (at Inferix) think OOP is a blind alley!
AOP is a much better model of reality - OOP is fine for "images on screens" and "data processing" but it cannot encapsulate intelligence - because "relationships and dynamics and intelligence" are not at it's core!
So we think that "AI Entities" (coming soon) will use only AOP!
Practically speaking Algol60, Coral66 and Inferix-MTR are examples of AOP languages - Algol60 became Pascal and Ada and the likes - and these just became more and more OOP (e.g. Delphi)!
The start of "typing" of values marked the end of AOP!
However: MTR is still a strictly AOP language (but unfortunately at present it is designed for AI entities to use and not humans).
You could think of an AOP as a language that strictly "prohibits" the typing of data elements and is only concerned with "values" of "signals".
"Opposite" isn't really a good way of putting it. What's the "opposite" of Democracy? OOP is a a paradigm -- a way of viewing the problem of programming.
The four main coding paradigms are:
- functional (viewing programs as mathematical formulas)
- imperative (programs are series of instructions for the computer)
- logical (model information and the relationship between that information), and
- OOP (Model objects and how it interacts with other data)
http://www.cs.aau.dk/~normark/prog3-03/html/notes/paradigms_themes-paradigm-overview-section.html#paradigms_logic-paradigm-overview_title_1
Logical is the most different by far and you have to jump through a lot of hoops to solve some problems in logical programming. The other three all solve the same problems, but the approaches are different.