A fundamental style of computer programming.
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Is it correct to say that CSS is AOP?
With selectors being a counterpart to pointcuts, and rules pretty much doing the same as advices do, - can we say that cascading style sheets are adhering to aspect-oriented paradigm ? And a corollary ...
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What Functional features are worth a little OOP confusion for the benefits they bring?
After learning functional programming in Haskell and F#, the OOP paradigm seems ass-backwards with classes, interfaces, objects. Which aspects of FP can I bring to work that my co-workers can ...
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Why “OOP” and not simply “Object Programming”?
Why do we say "Object-oriented programming" and not simply "Object programming"? Why do we speak of orientation in just this case, and not "Functionally-oriented programming" and so?
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How is this paradigm/style called?
I have the following situation:
I'm developing an add-in for a UML modeling tool. The models that can be created by the user are stored inside the main application and a limited access to the models ...
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Making some methods mostly contain method calls, while others doing “the lowest level” work [duplicate]
So I thought about this, and I don't know if it's included or not in any methodology.
I think the advantages of this coding style is that, at the lowest level, the code is extremely testable, and ...
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How much functional programming expertise can programmers be expected to have? [closed]
I'm coding in a non-functional language with functional mechanisms (C# to be specific, but you could substitute, say C++ and use function pointers, or what have you) on a small team. It's my habit to ...
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How do you call the discipline which consist of making the right choice of language/paradigm/class diagrams? [closed]
As a physicist, I've learnt programming on my own. But I would like to know the name of the discipline (like algorithmics is the discipline of designing algorithms) which consists of :
making the ...
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Paradigm Diagram
Does anyone have a diagram showing all significant programming paradigms. Something like this but with paradigms as titles would be ideal:
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Is the “jQuery programming style” a kind of Reactive programming?
jQuery is a Javascript library and framework, but when we are programming
with jQuery into DOM problems/solutions,
we can practice a style quite different of programming... We can read about jQuery ...
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Why is an anemic domain model considered bad in C#/OOP, but very important in F#/FP?
In a blog post on F# for fun and profit, it says:
In a functional design, it is very important to separate behavior from
data. The data types are simple and "dumb". And then separately, you
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Dependency properties outside the realm of WPF?
Is there a more general concept or name for what WPF calls "dependency properties"? I imagine this is not a WPF-ism and in fact other libraries or frameworks have employed a similar approach? If so, ...
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Good practice -apply paradigm to a language that is not fit for it
For example, what happens if a coder tries to code in purely functional-style paradigm in OO-paradigm language(Java)? Will it work? Or the OO nature of Java will not let it happen?
Also, is applying ...
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Did I answer this correctly and concisely? [closed]
By email I just answered my brother who is learning computer programming that C++ and Java are more similar than C and C++ even though C++ is nearly a superset of C. Do you agree?
AFAIK Stanley ...
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Functional Reactive/Relational Programming – Is there a difference?
I've been using Reactive Cocoa (by GitHub), a Functional Reactive Programming API for use with the Cocoa libraries for a while now, but have just read "Out of the Tar Pit", the paper that supposedly ...
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How do objects fit into modern C++ (stl, policy-classes, functional) style?
I'm a bit confused so the question is a bit confusing. TL;dr: how to mix STL and OOP?
From the comment to Best overview to modern C++ paradigms? and ...
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What is tabular programming?
The Falcon programming language advertises itself as supporting tabular programming:
Falcon provides six integrated programming paradigms: procedural, object oriented, prototype oriented, ...
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Connection between programming language and solutions
This is a rather philosphical / theoretical question.
I am interested in the question, how language (in this case programming languages) and thoughts (= solutions of problems) are connected.
I want ...
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What is the functional-programming alternative to an interface?
If I want to program in a "functional" style, with what would I replace an interface?
interface IFace
{
string Name { get; set; }
int Id { get; }
}
class Foo : IFace { ... }
Maybe a ...
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Do any LOP languages exist?
I have read a few of the articles related to the Language Oriented Programming paradigm. Therefore, I concluded that LOP paradigm can let programmers be more productive because of it's extensibility.
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Functional reactive programming — is Fay expressive enough?
So I'm doing a fairly involved javascript/html client with lots of ajax calls and other involvements of callback-ism. I'm entertaining the thought of using Fay for this purpose. I'm aware of Elm. ...
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What is the difference between functional relational programming and functional programming?
After reading both this thread and the linked paper, I don't understand how FRP (functional relational programming) is different from (FP) functional programming.
Does FRP augment or replace FP? Can ...
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Developing web sites that imitate desktop apps. How to fight that paradigm? [closed]
Supposse there's a company where web sites/apps are designed to resemble desktop apps.
They struggle to add:
Splash screens
Drop-down menus
Tab-pages
Pages that don't grow downward with content, ...
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What are algorithmic paradigms?
We generally talk about paradigms of programming as functional, procedural, object oriented, imperative etc but what should I reply when I am asked the paradigms of algorithms?
For example are ...
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What is the precise definition of programming paradigm?
Wikipedia defines programming paradigm thus:
a fundamental style of computer programming
which is echoed in the descriptive text of the paradigms tag on this site.
I find this a disappointing ...
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Empirical evidence for choice of programming paradigm to address a problem
The C2 wiki has a discussion of Empirical Evidence for Object-Oriented Programming that basically concludes there is none beyond appeal to authority. This was last edited in 2008. Discussion here ...
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What statements and approaches should I avoid when learning functional programming?
I have 6 years of programming experience, mostly following the object oriented paradigm, and I'm interested in learning functional programming. My main goal is to become a functional paradigm ...
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UI message passing programming paradigm
I recently (about two months ago) read an article that explained some user interface paradigm that I can't remember the name of and I also can't find the article anymore.
The paradigm allows for ...
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Is it fair to reduce OOP to mere hierarchical composition of data structures?
Meaning that OOP allows me to have data-trees, of arbitrary depth and breadth, with some leafs being functions (and those leafs would be called methods) ?
Because everything else that people often ...
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What is your approach to multi-paradigm programming?
I have been learning some Ruby recently and I had the following experience.
I had written a small tool of about 200 lines of code and, as an inexperienced Ruby programmer, I had used several loops to ...
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Introducing functional programming constructs in non-functional programming languages
This question has been going through my mind quite a lot lately and since I haven't found a convincing answer to it I would like to know if other users
of this site have thought about it as well.
In ...
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Can you/should you develop components for ASP.NET MVC?
Following from the previous question I've started to wonder - is it possible to implement "Components" in ASP.NET MVC (latest version)? And should you?
Let's clarify what I mean with a "component". ...
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Is it a good idea to do UI 100% in Javascript and provide data through an API?
My primary day job is making HTML applications. With that I mean internally used CRUD-type applications with lots of editable gridviews, textboxes, dropdowns, etc. We're currently using ASP.NET ...
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Do platform independence and different paradigms deter newcomers? [closed]
I'm only 18, and as such my initial ventures into programming were the usual 2000s-dominating high-level, paradigm-saturated affairs, complete with obsession with platform independence and 'good' ...
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Non-OOP languages advantages and good uses
I'm a C# developer, but I also know Java, JavaScript, XSLT, a little of C and Perl, e some other that I may have forgotten. Still, the paradigm I'm most familiar to is OOP.
I have always thought ...
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Programming Language for Learning Several Programming Paradigms [closed]
Is there a programming language that can be used as a bridge for learning several programming paradigms? I am introduced to the Oz programming language but I think there are several more languages ...
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What are the differences between aspect-oriented, subject-oriented, and role-oriented programming?
I know there are many papers describing these three paradigms but I'm looking for a schematic explanation.
There are a few very good descriptions of aspect-oriented programming on here so I'm asking ...
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What's The Difference Between Imperative, Procedural and Structured Programming?
By researching around (books, Wikipedia, similar questions on SE, etc) I came to understand that Imperative programming is one of the major programming paradigms, where you describe a series of ...
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Can you learn functional programming in C?
As a result of the comment discussion here, I wonder whether you can learn Functional Programming in C?
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Is my description of the actor model right?
If I understood, the actor model is just like the object model, but with a few differences:
EVERY object spawns it's own separate thread and its not a problem even when you have thousands of ...
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Any alternative main stream programming methodologies to OOP using C#?
As far as programming languages go, I love C#, and for that matter all the good that comes from the .net framework (LINQ, etc).
My main concern is I seem to be churning out too much code, and using ...
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How to better start learning programming - with imperative or declarative languages?
Someone is interested in learning to program. What language paradigm should I recomend him - imperative or declarative? And what programming language should he start with?
I think that declarative ...
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Why are we still using the DOM in the browser rather than a desktop paradigm
From my understanding, the web interface was developed to use HTML because at the time it wasn't possible to simulate a desktop style application in the browser such as how Silverlight and Flash work, ...
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Paradigms fit for UI programming
This is a more specific question (or actually two, but they are related) coming from the comments of OOP technology death where someone stated that OOP is not the right paradigm for GUI programming.
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How do I overcome paralysis by analysis when coding?
When I start a new project, I often times immediately start thinking about the details of implementation. "Where am I gonna put the DataBaseHandler? How should I use it? Should classes that want to ...
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I've learned so much about OO programming I have no idea how to write procedural code. What's a good way to learn?
When I learned to program, I learned Object Oriented Programming very early on. For a while, I blundered around with my beautiful hammer, trying to use it for everything, partially because I had no ...
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Can you Improve your programming skills by learning other language paradigms?
If so, can you tell me how learning a new paradigm changed your approach for solving programming problems even if the problem is in another paradigm/language/technology?
I will really appreciated If ...
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Functional as a first language
What are some pros and cons to learning functional programming before other paradigms?
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Can memristors change programming paradigms? In what way?
Think about persistent storage that can preserve pointers: among other things there is no need to serialize/deserialize data. For example, you typically build a tree structure and then serialize it ...
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What language should you learn in order to learn “pure” OOP? [closed]
I would like to use a pure object oriented programming language to really learn what the paradigm is about. I'm not out to become an expert at such; mostly will I implement some small things with it ...
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What problems are stack oriented languages well-suited and ill-suited for?
Stack oriented programming is a pretty unwidely used paradigm (well, PostScript gets used under the hood a bit here and there). This in mind, what problems are stack oriented languages good at? What ...
