The legend of the Tower of Babel depicts the fact that humans lost the ability to speak a common language and began to use different dialects, making communication between them far more difficult.

(1) A programming language that is object oriented. See object-oriented programming. (2) A language defined by another language. See metalanguage. (3) The output of a compiler or assembler program.

When object-oriented programming languages began to be used in enterprise applications, designers had problems fitting the object-oriented model with the relational model. In the object-oriented model ...