What Is The Traditional And Object-oriented Approach To System Development?

Advantages of an Object-Oriented approach to systems development

• Object orientation produces systems that are
– easier to evolve,
– more flexible,
– more robust, and
– more reusable

The amount of time to code the project is always less and the same code can be used throughout the application.

Compare and contrast the traditional and object-oriented approaches to systems development

Really the difference is in how certain things are enforced.  With traditional programming in languages like APL (A Programming Language) A, B, and C the developer as well as other developers who may use your code were counted on to follow certain conventions, avoiding the alteration of certain data types, not using GOTO the use of constants to eliminate any "magic numbers".  Basically what Object Orientation does is take these conventions and formalizes them, allowing programmers to privatize certain data, only allow data to be accessed in a certain way.

This is probably too big a question for here. But there is a quote by Bjarne Stroustrup (the man who invented C++ (an object oriented version of C)) that goes like this. "With C you could shoot yourself in the foot, C++ makes that a lot  more difficult, but when you do, it blows your whole leg off!" You could do worse than look at his homepage www2.research.att.com/~bs/homepage.html