Top Difference Between OOP and POP, Here in this blog of the difference between OOP and POP. OOP stands for, Object Oriented Programming and POP stands for, Procedural Oriented Programming. Both are high-level programming languages that solve a problem with different approaches. These approaches are known as programming paradigms in technical terms. A programmer can use different approaches to solve a particular problem. This is the point where programming languages come into the picture. With a proper program it is easy to solve the problem using the right approach, or ‘paradigm.’ Object-oriented programming and procedural-oriented programming are two such paradigms.