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Paradigms: a style or "way" of programming
| Paradigm | Parent Paradigm | Description | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperative | NA | Explicitly describes the actions of a program and uses the sequence of statements to modify the program state | C++, Java |
| Declarative | NA | Programs describe what they want to accomplish instead of giving explicit instruction and tend to lack things that interact with the real world and change the state of the program | SQL, xquery |
| Structured | Imperative, Declarative | Programs are task-centric and replaces goto statements with block structures and for loops and while loops | |
| Procedural | Imperative, Structured | Programs are based on prodecures(functions), which can typically be called from anywhere in the code, and do not have classes | PHP, JavaScript |
| Functional | Declarative, Structured | Programs behave similarly to Procedural programs, but there is no state and therefore no variables | Fortran, Haskell |
| Object Oriented | Imperative, Structured | Data structures form objects which contain methods(functions) and attributes(variables) that are created in classes | C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, Haskell |
| Logic | Declarative | The engine answers questions based on facts and rules | ASP |