Comparison of multi-paradigm programming languages: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 23:06, 10 September 2005

Revision as of 23:37, 10 September 2005

Line 1:

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 programmers to use the best tool for a job, admitting that no one paradigm solves all problems in the easiest or most efficient way.

TwoThe examplesmost are [[Ada programming language|Ada]] and [[C Plus Plus|C++]], whose handle both [[object-oriented programming|object-oriented]] and [[generic programming]]. Anotheraggressive 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 forthmore. 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==

Line 18:

**[[Pliant]]

**[[Python programming language|Python]]

**[[Ruby_programming_language| Ruby]]

*functional, object-oriented, [[Prototype-based programming|prototype-based]]

**[[REBOL]]

*Imperativeimperative, object-oriented, [[Generic programming|generic]] ([[template]] [[metaprogramming]])

**[[Ada programming language|Ada]]

**[[C Plus Plus|C++]]

**[[D programming language|D]]

'''Four paradigms'''

*functional, imperative, [[Logic programming|logic-based]], object-oriented

**[[Leda programming language|Leda]]

*functional, imperative, object-oriented, prototype-based

**[[Lua programming language|Lua]]