ROOP is a multiparadigm

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made for

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(AI) applications, created at Chengdu University,

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. It combines procedural, logic or rule-based, and

object-oriented programming Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of '' objects''. Objects can contain data (called fields, attributes or properties) and have actions they can perform (called procedures or methods and impl ...

techniques.

Features

* ROOP is built directly on C++, providing full unrestricted access to all its features. * ROOP, like OPS-83 and ORBS, is

data-driven Data ( , ) are a collection of discrete or continuous value (semiotics), values that convey information, describing the quantity, qualitative property, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols t ...

but, unlike those languages, rules in ROOP may enter into ''local communication'' and this can be used to dynamically divide them into groups, including the problem status space tree. * Rules and facts in ROOP are objects, and they send and respond to messages just like any other object in the language. This ability is usually unavailable in other logic programming languages such as

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. * ROOP's

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can be ''redefined'' in a program, something usually infeasible in other logic languages.

References

{{Reflist Multi-paradigm programming languages Object-oriented programming languages Logic programming languages