4.1. OO is the way
As computer science continues to evolve, our programs get more and more powerful, using larger and larger amounts of code. The Pop program has some 10,000 lines of code, and if we were to take into account the code for the underlying Windows functions, we’d be looking at hundreds of thousands of lines more. How can we deal with such large programs?
Our only hope is to continually move to higher levels. We learn to design and program in higher-level and more abstract ways. In the earliest days, software engineers worked very close to the hardware writing microcode to directly control the processor chip. Machine language is a step up from this, consisting of coded instructions that the processor can read and execute. Assembly ...
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