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by skydhash 7 hours ago
> Object orientation could be counted as a separate paradigm but how much different that is from basic imperative programming is already somewhat debatable.

There’s OOP with message passing (Smalltalk, Objective C) and there’s OOP with functional flavor (CLOS in Common Lisp).

I do agree that collecting paradigms is more interesting than collecting languages. Like logic programming (prolog), array and stack programming (uuia).