Objectivism-oriented programming is a software development methodology originally created by members of Ayn Rand's Church of Objectivism, and should not be confused with Object Oriented Programming. While considered by many to be extreme, it is also not in itself a form of Extreme Programming, although extreme programmers might make use of its techniques from time to time. The fundamental tenet of Objectivism-oriented programming is that all computation can be performed by a single operation of the form A=A