Difference between POP and OOP

Characteristics	POP	OOP
Acronym for	Procedure Oriented Programming	Object Oriented Programming
Program Division	Program is divided into small parts that are called functions.	Program is divided into small parts that are called objects.
Importance	Importance is given to functions and sequence of actions rather than data.	Importance is given to Data rather than procedures or objects.
Approach Type	It is a top down approach.	It is bottom up approach.
Access Specifier	It does not have access specifiers.	It has access specifiers named as: Public, Private and Protected.
Expansion of Data and functions	Tough Task	Easy Task
Data Access	Make use of global data that can be accessed function to function freely.	Data can’t move easily from function to function, it is kept public or private so we can control the access of data.
Data Security	It does not support data hiding and is less secure.	It supports data hiding and is more secure.
Overloading Support	Not Supported	Functions and Operator Overloading Supported.
Examples	C, Visual Basic, FORTAN	C++, VB.NET , Java etc.