Object-based language

An object-based language is a <a href="/facts/Programming_language/cWTYbgWa">programming language</a> that provides a construct to encapsulate state and behavior as an <a href="/facts/Object_(computer_science)/eX99dtAw">object</a>. A language that also supports <a href="/facts/Inheritance_(object-oriented_programming)/a7R1xv8n">inheritance</a> or <a href="/facts/Subtyping/0L9t8twv">subtyping</a> is classified as <a href="/facts/Object-oriented_programming/TxNMEcao">object-oriented</a>. Even though object-oriented seems like a superset of object-based, they are used as mutually exclusive alternatives, rather than overlapping. Examples of strictly object-based languages – supporting an object feature but not inheritance or subtyping – are early versions of <a href="/facts/Ada_(programming_language)/Y2yHel4l">Ada</a>, <a href="/facts/Visual_Basic_6/7QMXM6fP">Visual Basic 6</a> (VB6), and <a href="/facts/Fortran_90/m1KqjcMU">Fortran 90</a>.
Some classify <a href="/facts/Prototype-based_programming/x9oNIYPG">prototype-based programming</a> as object-based even though it supports inheritance and subtyping albeit not via a <a href="/facts/Class_(computer_programming)/zvzkSAtE">class</a> concept. Instead an object inherits its state and behavior from a template object. A commonly used language with prototype-based programming support is <a href="/facts/JavaScript/XhhIIEsl">JavaScript</a>;

Object-based language open-in-new

Object-based language