Objects of affection. (object-oriented programming) (The Soft Machine) (Column) From: Chief Executive (U.S.) | Date: April 1, 1995| Author: Seybold, Patricia B. | COPYRIGHT 1995 Chief Executive Publishing. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Object-oriented development is the wave of the future. This approach to programming offers companies several appealing benefits, the most important of which is that object-oriented programming reduces applications development time to just nine months, as compared to 18 to 24 months when conventional programming languages are used. This reduction is development time is possible because object-oriented programming allows objects to be reused, so that certain programming sequences need not be re...