[wildranter]

1) imperative programming 2) functional programming 3) OOP 4) etc programming

They're jus programming paradigms. Take what you need and get the job done. Anything else is just a buzzword.

[derleth]

This little homily adds nothing. That's why it's getting downvoted.

(It's also wrong, or over-simplified, in that all programming doesn't really fit into those little boxes.)

[wildranter]

Those little boxes are all boxes there are (except for prolog).

BTW, downvotes are as meaningless as i--.

[icebraining]

Those little boxes are all boxes there are (except for prolog).

No, they aren't, and a simple web search would've revealed others, such as Dataflow[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_programming