What is the difference between an object-oriented programming language and object-based programming language?

Question

Aren't they the same thing?

Answer 1

Object-oriented Programming Languages and Object-Based Programming languages are almost similar. There differ on certain aspects though:

• Object-Based Languages don't follow all the properties of Object-Oriented Programming languages like inheritance and polymorphism. 
• Object-Oriented Languages do not have pre-built objects while Object-Based Languages do. For instance, JS has a window object already built into it.  

Examples of OOPLs are JAVA, C# and examples of OBPLs are JavaScript, VBScript.

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