OOP Vs Procedural Paradigms
Both object-oriented and procedure-oriented paradigms are very popular and most commonly used programming paradigms. The following table gives the differences between those.
| Procedure-oriented | Object-oriented |
|---|---|
| It is often known as POP (procedure-oriented programming). | It is often known as OOP (object-oriented programming). |
| It follows the top-bottom flow of execution. | It follows the bottom-top flow of execution. |
| Larger programs have divided into smaller modules called as functions. | The larger program has divided into objects. |
| The main focus is on solving the problem. | The main focus is on data security. |
| It doesn’t support data abstraction. | It supports data abstraction using access specifiers that are public, protected, and private. |
| It doesn’t support inheritance. | It supports the inheritance of four types. |
| Overloading is not supported. | It supports the overloading of function and also the operator. |
| There is no concept of friend function and virtual functions. | It has the concept of friend function and virtual functions. |
| Examples - C, FORTRAN | Examples - C++ , Java , VB.net, C#.net, Python, R Programming, etc. |