Designing an Object
The object-oriented approach attempts to manage the complexity inherent in real-world problems by abstracting out knowledge and encapsulating it within objects. Finding or creating these objects is a problem of structuring knowledge and activities.
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, Brian Wilkerson, and Lauren Wiener, Designing Object-Oriented Software
An early goal of OOP was to simplify the work of software system design by reducing the big problem "design this large system to solve these problems" into the small problems "design these small systems" and "combine these small systems such that they solve these problems in concert". Brad Cox, an object technologist who built the Objective-C language and cofounded a company to exploit it, wrote an article "What if there's a Silver Bullet...And the Competition Gets It First?" in which he asserted that OOP represented a significant reduction in software complexity.
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