These answers are all wrong ... and that is a VERY good question ... and the answer is .... "AOP" - i.e. an "Algorithmic Oriented Programming" entirely based on the "algorithm" being at the very centre of the concept - in an AOP the "data" or an "object" or "objects"are simply "passed to the algorithm" - i.e. THE ALGORITHM IS ENTIRELY KING (it "knows" what to do with the data) - the data carries around "nothing".
In fact "we" (at Inferix) think OOP is a blind alley!
AOP is a much better model of reality - OOP is fine for "images on screens" and "data processing" but it cannot encapsulate intelligence - because "relationships and dynamics and intelligence" are not at it's core!
So we think that "AI Entities" (coming soon) will use only AOP!
Practically speaking Algol60, Coral66 and Inferix-MTR are examples of AOP languages - Algol60 became Pascal and Ada and the likes - and these just became more and more OOP (e.g. Delphi)!
The start of "typing" of values marked the end of AOP!
However: MTR is still a strictly AOP language (but unfortunately at present it is designed for AI entities to use and not humans).
You could think of an AOP as a language that strictly "prohibits" the typing of data elements and is only concerned with "values" of "signals".
