Object Oriented Programming

Classes and objects

Ruby is, like many other popular languages, an object-oriented programming language. Other object-oriented languages that you might have heard of are C++, Java, Python, PHP, and Javascript. At some point in the 1990s this paradigm started to become more and more popular and nowadays it is the most prevalent one.

Theoretical Insight into Object Oriented Approach

One reason for this is that object-oriented programming very much fits the way we perceive and think about the world, at least in the occidental culture. Our way of thinking was, historically, very much influenced by Plato, and philosophers who followed him:

🤔 We somehow tend to think about the world as if there are abstract ...