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The programming paradigm involved provides (and determines) the view that the programmer has of the execution of the program: in the case of object-oriented programming, for instance, the programmer sees the execution of the program as a collection of dialoguing objects, while under functional programming the execution is seen as a sequence of state-less function evaluations.

Just as different schools of software engineering advocate different methodologies, different programming languages advocate different programming paradigms. Most languages are designed to support a particular paradigm ( Smalltalk and Java support object-oriented programming while Haskell and Scheme support functional programming, for example), but some are capable of supporting multiple paradigms (such as Common Lisp, Python, and OzOz is a multi-paradigm programming language. Oz was originally developed in the Programming Systems Lab at Saarland University by Gert Smolka and his students in the early 1990s. Since then, Oz has been continually developed by an international group, the.) The relationship between paradigms and languages can be quite complex, however: C++C+ (pronounced "sea plus plus") is a general-purpose computer programming language. It is a statically typed free-form multi-paradigm language supporting procedural programming, data abstraction, object-oriented programming, and generic programming. Durin, for instance, adds aspects of object-oriented programming to CThe C Programming Language Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the original edition that served for many years as an informal specification of the language The C programming language is a low-level standardized programming language developed in the early, a structured programming language.

1 List of paradigms

Contrasted paradigms:

• Structured programmingStructured programming can be seen as a subset or subdiscipline of procedural programming, one of the major programming paradigms. It is most famous for removing or reducing reliance on the GOTO statement (also known as "go to"). Historically, several dif vs. Unstructured programmingUnstructured programming is a programming paradigm where all code is contained in a single continuous block. This is contrary to structured programming, where programatic tasks can be split in to smaller sections known as functions or subroutines, which c
• Imperative programming vs. Declarative programming
• Procedural programming vs. Functional programming
• Value-level programming vs. Function-level programming
• Flow-driven programming vs. Event-driven programming
• Scalar programming vs. Array programming

• Within Object-oriented programming:

Class-based programming vs. Prototype-based programming

• Within Logic programming:

Rule-based programming vs. Constraint programming

Non-contrasted paradigms:

• Component-oriented programming à la OLE
• Aspect-oriented programming à la AspectJ
• Relational programming à la SQL
• Symbolic programming à la Stephen Wolfram's Mathematica
• Table-Oriented Programming à la Microsoft's FoxPro

Candidate paradigms:

• Post-object programming
• Subject-oriented programming
• Intentional programming
• Reflective programming