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> The whole language is, to an extent, a compromise over various paradigms that are very nearly mutually exclusive outside of ML.

I'd say the MLs are functional-first (with imperative/OO on top). Like Ruby OO-first (with some functional on top).

For me this type of multi-paradigm is ok. It starts to hurt when all the paradigms are "first", which I see in Scala.