Who invented OOP?

Options

  • A. Dennis Ritchie
  • B. Adele Goldberg
  • C. Andrea Ferro
  • D. Alan Kay

Correct Answer (Detailed Explanation is Below)

D. Alan Kay

Detailed Explanation

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is credited to Alan Kay in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

He was one of the main developers of Smalltalk at Xerox PARC, which became the first fully object-oriented programming language.

Although Adele Goldberg also contributed significantly to Smalltalk, Alan Kay is widely recognized as the person who coined the term “Object-Oriented Programming.”

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