Programming Paradigms

In 1969, their were 120 programming languages listed.

Now there are more programming languages.

These languages are divided under specific category based on how they behave this is called paradigm.

There are 4 major categories:

• Procedural programming paradigm.
• Logic programming paradigm.
• Functional programming paradigm.
• Object oriented programming paradigm.

Each paradigm has its own advantages:

Paradigm	Good for	It has	Examples
Procedural	decomposition	Program=Algorithm + Data	C , Java , Perl , etc.
Logic	searching	Program=Facts + Rules	Prolog
Functional	reasoning	Program=Functions	Lisp , ML
Object oriented	modelling	Program=Objects + Messages	C++ , Python