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In this book, you learn more about what object oriented means and why many programmers prefer object-oriented languages. For now, it suffices for you to know that Java is a thoroughly object-oriented programming language; in contrast, most programming languages, such as C, are procedure-oriented, and other programming languages, such as C++, are half-procedure-oriented, half-object-oriented hybrids.