On 11/15/2011 12:43 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
If you would consider at least two paradigms as multiparadigm then I would say
that a lot of languages are multiparadigm.
We could bikeshed forever what is a paradigm and what isn't, and how many
constitutes multi, etc.
But whatever color one's shed is painted, it's pretty clear that D supports an
unusually large number of paradigms for a programming language. It doesn't start
from an idea that "everything is an object".
For example, Haskell is described as:
"Haskell is a standardized, general-purpose purely functional programming
language, with non-strict semantics and strong static typing" ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(programming_language)
which certainly suggests a single paradigm language.
"Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, reflective programming
language." --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk
"Java is a general-purpose, concurrent, class-based, object-oriented language
that is specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as
possible." --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)
"Go is a compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language" ---
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)
What does Wikipedia have to say about C++?
"C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose
programming language." --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B
It's a markedly different tone from the others.
Here's what Wikipedia has to say about what a multi-paradigm language is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-paradigm_programming_language#Multi-paradigm_programming_language
