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title: "What is the difference between OOP and SOP (Structural Programming) concepts?"  
description: "What is the difference between OOP and SOP (Structural Programming) concepts?"  
author: "Ravi Vishwakarma"  
published: 2021-08-23  
updated: 2021-08-23  
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# What is the difference between OOP and SOP (Structural Programming) concepts?

What is the [difference](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/157114/good-news-or-bad-news-and-the-difference-is) between [OOP](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/160066/what-is-oop-in-javascript) and SOP (Structural [Programming](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12214/web-development-company-in-india-laid-on-the-foundation-of-concrete-java-programming)) [concepts](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13127/macro-and-microeconomics-concepts-in-relation-to-global-organization-management)?

## Replies

### Reply by Ashutosh Kumar Verma

## Difference between oops and sop-

| OOPs (Object Oriented Programming system) | SOP(Procedural Programming) |
| --- | --- |
| 1- OOPs is object based programming language. | SOP is based on function based programming language. |
| 2- OOPs is bottom-up approach | sop is top-down approach. |
| 3- Data hiding concept in performed in oops. | Data hiding concept can not performed in sop. |
| 4- It is more secure than sop. | sop in not secure as oops is. |
| 5-Access modifier is used in oops programming language i.e.- public ,private and public | There is not access modifier is used in sop. |
| There is adding data and function is east. | There is adding data into and function is not easy. |
| for ex- java, c++, c#, python etc. | ex- fortran, cobole, c., pascal, basics etc. |

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