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	Programming Paradigms Derivable from ARS
		Among the programming paradigms, the functional programming paradigm results from strictly applying the original Lambda Calculus, invented by Alonzo Church in 1941, to programming.
		Programs written in a functional style are very robust and easier to debug in contrast to imperative programs which may produce side effects causing a complexity that is very difficult to handle.
		Scheme is a hybrid language which favors the functional programming paradigm but can also be used to program in an object oriented or even imperative style because it does allow assignment statements, which are flagged however to indicate their potential danger.
	www.lambda-bound.com /paradigms.html (495 words)

	Programming paradigm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A programming paradigm provides (and determines) the view that the programmer has of the execution of the program.
		For instance, in object-oriented programming, programmers can think of a program as a collection of interacting objects, while in functional programming a program can be thought of as a sequence of stateless function evaluations.
		For instance, pure functional programming disallows the use of side-effects; structured programming disallows the use of goto.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Programming_paradigm (445 words)

	Multi-paradigm programming language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A multiparadigm programming language is a programming language that supports more than one programming paradigm.
		The most ambitious example is 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 more.
		Oz was designed over a ten-year period to combine in a harmonious way concepts that are traditionally associated with different programming paradigms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Multi-paradigm_programming_language (219 words)

	Programming Paradigms
		A programming paradigm is a way of conceptualizing what it means to perform computation, of structuring and organizing how tasks are to be carried out on a computer.
		Programming language is a notational system (linguistic framework) for describing computation in a machine and human readable form.
		In constraint programming, a sequence of constraints are specified that must be maintained during program execution.
	www.cs.iastate.edu /~leavens/ComS541Fall98/hw-pages/paradigms/paradigms.htm (883 words)

	Object-oriented programming (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Other paradigms such as functional and procedural programming focus primarily on the actions with the objects being secondary considerations; OOP the situation is reversed.
		Object-based programming is centered around the creation objects and their interactions but may not some of the key features of the object-oriented paradigm such as inheritance.
		Object-oriented programming "took off" as the dominant methodology during the mid-1980s largely due to influence of C++ an extension of the C programming language.
	www.freeglossary.com /Object-oriented_programming (2750 words)

	An Object Model for Multiparadigm Programming
		In order for a paradigm to use a service provided by another paradigm (this can be a procedure, clause, function, rule, or a port, depending on the other paradigm) that service must pass thought its import gate.
		The input of the export gate and the output of the import gate follow the conventions of the paradigm, while the output of the export gate and the input of the import gate follow the conventions of the paradigms' superclass (Figure 2).
		The hierarchy is useful for the multiparadigm programming environment implementor, as it provides a structure for building the system, but is irrelevant to the application programmer, who only looks for the most suited paradigm to build his application.
	www.spinellis.gr /pubs/conf/1994-OOPSLA-Multipar/html/mlom.html (1905 words)

	Chapter 5: The Event-Oriented Programming Paradigm
		One thing that quickly becomes taken for granted by a programming student's "programmer's view of the world" is that there is some concept of a main program that takes control of the CPU when the program first starts running and this main program drives the application.
		This programming paradigm is known as the event-oriented programming paradrgm.
		The event-oriented programming paradigm presents a perspective that is backwards from the way most programmers first learned to write software.
	webster.cs.ucr.edu /Page_win32/WindowsAsmPgm/html/Ch05.html (11314 words)

	Actor - TunesWiki
		The term for a paradigm of programming which models computations with concurrent (possibly transparently-distributed) entities, the Actors, that communicate with asynchronous messages; Actors may update their behaviour depending on the messages they receive.
		This very impoverished concurrent constraint language is a syntactic subset of Janus, a concurrent constraint language which closely resembles concurrent logic programming languages such as Guarded Horn Clauses [21], Strand [5], Parlog [2] and Flat Concurrent Prolog [13].
		By identifying the subset of Janus which is an Actor language, we elucidate the relationship between Actors and concurrent logic programming (and its generalization as concurrent constraint programming).
	tunes.org /wiki/Actor (633 words)

	The Imperative Programming Paradigm
		Imperative programs are characterized by sequences of bindings (state changes) in which a name may be bound to a value at one point in the program and later bound to a different value.
		Most descriptions of imperative programming languages are tied to hardware and implementation considerations where a name is bound to an address, a variable to a storage cell, and a value to a bit pattern.
		When a programming language requires programmers to manage memory for dynamically allocated objects and the language permits aliasing, an object returned to memory may still be accessible though an alias and the value may be changed if the memory manager allocates the same storage area to another object.
	burks.brighton.ac.uk /burks/pcinfo/progdocs/plbook/imperati.htm (5222 words)

	Programming:C plus plus/V3/Multi-Paradigm - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
		This free-form nature of C++ is used (or abused, depending on your point of view) by some programmers with an unusual sense of humor in crafting obfuscated C++, which is C++ that is purposefully written to be difficult to understand.
		A programming paradigm is a model or pattern for designing, organizing, and writing a computer program.
		Static typing advocates believe programs are more reliable when they have been type-checked, while dynamic typing advocates point to distributed code that has proved reliable and to small bug databases.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Programming:C_plus_plus/V3/Multi-Paradigm (693 words)

	What Isa Paradigm
		And even without any reference: every single programming language is built on one and only one of those three principles (but you need to import a bit from the imperative paradigm for interaction with the outside world).
		It's generally not until final year or grad school that the meanings of programming paradigms are tackled in any depth (if at all), and then it's observed that the boundaries between them are amorphous, and their conventional meanings ambiguous and lacking in rigour.
		The debate lies not in your (or anyone's) choice of fundamental paradigms, but with the definition of "programming paradigm" itself, which is subject to interpretation.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?WhatIsaParadigm (3287 words)

	The Literate-Programming Paradigm
		Literate programming, a technique for coding software systems that promotes readability and comprehension, is examined in detail.
		The current literate-programming paradigm is reviewed by looking at two sample literate programs.
		A critique of literate programming as it is currently used is presented, and methods for enhancing the process are explored.
	csdl2.computer.org /persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/mags/co/&toc=comp/mags/co/1991/06/r6toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/2.86838 (220 words)

	Reflection-Oriented Programming
		Since a program may reflect any code up to the next higher level, including code that accesses the next level, it is possible for a program to run code at arbitrarily high meta-levels.
		Since the role of most programs is to manipulate data (i.e., values, objects), this added power is quite useful, but a traditional metaobject protocol does not let a program say anything directly about control flow or other meta-level concepts that do not correspond directly to objects in the problem domain.
		More precisely, we define reflection-oriented programming to be a programming style that uses any means available to extend the meta-level semantics of computation in order to avoid situations in which the local requirements of some program fragment lead to non-local rewriting of the program.
	www.cs.indiana.edu /~jsobel/rop.html (7703 words)

	Classification of the principal programming paradigms
		A programming paradigm is a style of programming a computer that is defined by a specific set of programming concepts and techniques, as embodied by its kernel language, the small core language in which all the paradigm's abstractions can be defined.
		Multiparadigm programming is a natural approach to programming: it allows to use the concepts necessary for a program without being encumbered by unnecessary concepts.
		When a language is mentioned under a paradigm, it means that part of the language is intended (by its designers) to support the paradigm without interference from other paradigms.
	www.info.ucl.ac.be /~pvr/paradigms.html (532 words)

	Paradigms -- The Architecture of Programming Languages
		A programming paradigm is a way of conceptualizing what it means to perform computation, and how tasks that are to be carried out on a computer should be structured and organized» [Leda, p 3].
		When ``the imperative paradigm'' is opposed to ``the functional paradigm'' usually the combination of update model + algorithmic code + algorithmic/procedural decomposition is opposed to the combination of applicative model + functional code + applicative/functional decomposition.
		A programming language supporting that MOC (ie., with static and dynamic semantic domains corresponding to the MOC's entities and events) allows computations thus conceptualized to be expressed/specified in program code[>].
	www.cs.mun.ca /~ulf/pld/archi.html (4573 words)

	Literate Programming
		A brief history of the literate programming paradigm, recent work, and some ideas that we're working on, with apologies to the established players.
		It was Knuth's intention to provide a system of programming by which the programmer could typeset his or her work in book or article form, so that each choice of implementation, each algorithm, was clearly explained and justified.
		Seeing a clear exposition of the program code may also induce the maintenance programmer to correct it when a mistake is found, instead of merely correcting the program code and leaving the specification in its original erroneous state.
	www.vivtek.com /litprog.html (1828 words)

	Programming Languages Proposal for Curriculum 2001
		Shifting logic programming from core to an intermediate or advanced topic (we have not yet included a KU for this, however, as we have only focussed on those topics having core material).
		Moreover, functional programming is important because it teaches students new ways to think about programming, and gives them ideas on how to combine and abstract program parts that are very difficult to see in other paradigms.
		Parallel and distributed programming are becoming quite common; for example, Java includes a locks and constructs that allow one to program monitors, and the Java Jini and RPC mechanisms allow one to do RPC.
	www.cs.williams.edu /~kim/Curric2001/PL2001.html (3234 words)

	A Fortran-P Programming Paradigm for Clusters of Shared-Memory Multiprocessors (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A Fortran-P Programming Paradigm for Clusters of Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
		Development of a Fortran-P programming paradigm, and ultimately a precompiler, for this new architecture should therefore be of considerable benefit to the HPCC community.
		It is therefore possible that the Fortran- P programming paradigm we are developing could be used not only to write portable code, but also to write portable efficient code for self-similar algorithms.
	www.lcse.umn.edu /research/doe/fortranp.html (563 words)

	An Introduction To Anal Programming (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sometimes someone needs to adhere to an existing paradigm -- a driver, an extension of a class or library, and extension of a language, an add-on (or add-in) to an existing program.
		Within the AP paradigm one would not hesitate to completely re-implement something -- the format of a configuration file for example -- right in the middle of a project, if in doing so would decrease complexity and increase either efficiency or versatility.
		Within the AP paradigm one would not simply choose one database (unless one had to for reasons mentioned in "Where Anal Programming Fits with Regard to other Programming Paradigms"), but would code so that ANY database could be used.
	mysite.verizon.net /vzep00rh/AP.html (950 words)

	Overview of the four main programming paradigms
		Functional programming is in many respects a simpler and more clean programming paradigm than the imperative one.
		As described in Section 2.1, the imperative paradigm is rooted in the key technological ideas of the digital computer, which are more complicated, and less 'clean' than mathematical function theory.
		An object-oriented program is constructed with the outset in concepts, which are important in the problem domain of interest.
	www.cs.aau.dk /~normark/prog3-03/html/notes/paradigms_themes-paradigm-overview-section.html (822 words)

	Programming Paradigm
		Paradigm originally meant something like 'exemplar'/'pattern'/'template' but in the last 30 years has come to mean something more like 'zeitgeist'/'worldview'.
		A programming paradigm provides for the programmer the means and structure for the execution of a program.
		Many programming paradigms are as well-known for what they do not do as for what they do.
	www.c2.com /cgi/wiki?ProgrammingParadigm (637 words)

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		I have used literate programming in a C++ project and really enjoyed the ability to introduce instance variables when they were first used in a method, but the need and reason for these variables should have been discovered and documented in the analysis phase.
		Regardless of paradigm, most experienced programmers (at least those I have worked with) tend to write programs in little pieces and then put the pieces together to make the compiler happy (which is what the tangling tools do automatically).
		The main purpose of literate programming, as I see it, is to enable the programmer to write a program for a human reader, yet still enable a compiler to grab hold of it.
	www.literateprogramming.com /best/usefuloop.html (2790 words)

	Programming Paradigm > 2 Encapsulation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Three of the ten parameters—window procedure, class name, and program instance—cannot use the defaults so they are passed in the constructor.
		The nondefaultable parameters are the class name, the program instance, and the title of the window.
		The window procedure must be implemented in your program, and its address is passed to the system during window class registration.
	www.awprofessional.com /articles/article.asp?p=167886&seqNum=3 (582 words)

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		Most if not all programs published as examples for literate programming are either small or do not come with their specification and design document that have to be taken into consideration when reading an example for a literate program that should illustration how to use this new technique.
		However, it seems that managers are more willing to take a look at tools than at new paradigms because tools are usually simpler to introduce and don't require that much effort than a whole new paradigm which does not promise much more than `quality', something customers are not ready to pay for, yet.
		Literate programming is always associated with documentation and documentation is something most programmers as well as their managers regard as a nuisance, something you have to do but which does not really contribute anything real.
	www.literateprogramming.com /best/lpunused2.html (1663 words)

	Functional programming in the Java language
		Functional programming, on the other hand, is a style of programming that emphasizes the evaluation of expressions rather than the execution of commands.
		From a functional programming standpoint, the expression is not yet a general piece of logic; that is, it cannot be passed around and asked to execute whenever you want, without regard to the current position of execution control.
		Since this type of development is inherent to the functional programming paradigm, it seems natural to use functional programming techniques when developing modular code on the Java platform.
	www.ibm.com /developerworks/linux/library/j-fp.html (4831 words)

	LP as an Introductory Programming Paradigm
		Declarative (Logic) programming permits a clear separation of the concern for a precise specification of the solution of a problem from the concern for an efficient implementation of that solution.
		Relational programming, on the other hand, is less natural, since search, constraints, etc. are too sophisticated for beginners; and implicational reasoning is harder to understand than equational reasoning.
		Owen stated that LP should only be used as an introductory paradigm in institutions where adherents and experts of LP reside, since there is a possibility that a non-expert may not teach it so well because he/she is not a believer in LP.
	www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be /~dtai/projects/ALP/newsletter/archive_93_96/comment/intro.html (1625 words)

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