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Article: Object-oriented technology gaining acceptance. (Automation Update)
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- National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition
- Article date:
- November 29, 1993
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Object-oriented technology has entered the mainstream of industrial-strength software development and can offer tremendous benefits to insurance companies.
The founding principle of object-oriented technology is the encapsulation of related data and procedures into a new unit of software--the object.
In object-oriented programming, a large part of a program is made up of interacting components called objects, which correspond to real-world entities such as bank accounts, policy numbers, employees, and rating criteria.
Objects are based on representations of real-world objects and processes that embody both process and data.
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