Gradually, abstraction became the guiding principle in software development trends, giving birth to object-oriented programming (OOP) and languages like Java and Python.

BANGALORE, INDIA: In linguistics abstraction means a concept or an idea. It is a way of generalizing a thought process that can be later applied to wider applications. In computer science ...

The author discusses his results of measuring the performance degradation of Java programs while using various data abstraction features of the language.