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A '''multiparadigm programming language''' is a [[programming language]] that supports more than one [[programming paradigm]]. It allows, as described by [[Bjarne Stroustrup]], "a [[computer program|program]] using more than one [[computer programming|programming]] styles". The design goal of such languages is to allow a programmerprogrammers to use the best tool for a job, admitting that no singleone paradigm solves all problems in the easiest or most efficient way.

Two examples are [[Ada programming language|Ada]] and [[C Plus Plus|C++]], whose handle both [[object-oriented programming|object-oriented]] and [[generic programming]]. Another example is [[Oz programming language|Oz]], which has subsets that are a logic language (Oz descends from logic programming), a functional language, an object-oriented language, a dataflow concurrent language, and so forth. Oz was designed over a ten-year period to combine in a harmonious way concepts that are traditionally associated with different programming paradigms.

==Multiparadigm languages==

Languages, with paradigms.

*[[Ada programming language|Ada]] ([[Imperative programming|imperative]], [[Object-oriented programming|object-oriented]])

*[[APL programming language|APL]] ([[Functional programming|functional]], imperative)