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Questions tagged [paradigms]

A tag for questions relating to the world view underlying a particular software methodology or theory.

A tag for questions relating to the world view underlying a particular software methodology or theory.

A paradigm is a model, method or pattern. In programming different methods of writing programs are called , examples are and functional programming.

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Functional programming vs Object Oriented programming

I've been mainly exposed to OO programming so far and am looking forward to learning a functional language. My questions are: When do you choose functional programming over object-oriented? What are the typical problem definitions where…
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What is the difference between declarative and imperative paradigm in programming?

I have been searching the web looking for a definition for declarative and imperative programming that would shed some light for me. However, the language used at some of the resources that I have found is daunting - for instance at Wikipedia. Does…
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Functional, Declarative, and Imperative Programming

What do the terms functional, declarative, and imperative programming mean?
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What is the difference between procedural programming and functional programming?

I've read the Wikipedia articles for both procedural programming and functional programming, but I'm still slightly confused. Could someone boil it down to the core?
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What is aspect-oriented programming?

I understand object oriented programming, and have been writing OO programs for a long time. People seem to talk about aspect-oriented programming, but I've never really learned what it is or how to use it. What is the basic paradigm? This…
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OOP vs Functional Programming vs Procedural

What are the differences between these programming paradigms, and are they better suited to particular problems or do any use-cases favour one over the others? Architecture examples appreciated!
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Aspect Oriented Programming vs. Object-Oriented Programming

Like most developers here and in the entire world, I have been developing software systems using object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques for many years. So when I read that aspect-oriented programming (AOP) addresses many of the problems that…
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Mixins vs. Traits

What is the difference between Mixins and Traits? According to Wikipedia, Ruby Modules are sort of like traits. How so?
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Alternatives to Object-Oriented Programming?

OOP is probably the most used programming paradigm in today’s software design. My question is – what other paradigm(s) can compete with it and can stand in the place of OOP? To clarify that question, I’m not asking about what other paradigms there…
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How do functional programming languages work?

If functional programming languages cannot save any state, how do they do simple stuff like reading input from a user? How do they "store" the input (or store any data for that matter?) For example: how would this simple C thing translate to a…
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The difference between Reactive and Functional-Reactive programming

I have been doing some research into reactive programming recently and I'm finding it hard to find a good description of the difference between Reactive and Functional-Reactive. Is it simply that the reactive programming is implemented using…
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Are FP and OO orthogonal?

I have heard this time and again, and I am trying to understand and validate the idea that FP and OO are orthogonal. First of all, what does it mean for 2 concepts to be orthogonal? FP encourages immutability and purity as much as possible, while OO…
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Functional programming and non-functional programming

In my second year of University we were "taught" Haskell, I know almost nothing about it and even less about functional programming. What is functional programming, why and/xor where would I want to use it instead of non-functional programming and…
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Pitfalls/Disadvantages of Functional Programming

When would you NOT want to use functional programming? What is it not so good at? I am more looking for disadvantages of the paradigm as a whole, not things like "not widely used", or "no good debugger available". Those answers may be correct as of…
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Double-checked locking in .NET

I came across this article discussing why the double-check locking paradigm is broken in Java. Is the paradigm valid for .NET (in particular, C#), if variables are declared volatile?
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