Questions tagged [paradigms]
A fundamental style of computer programming.
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In OOP, what counts as a "getter"
Note: I'm not looking for opinions on whether the authors of the article below are right or wrong. Mainly I'm looking for the exact definition of what they mean by getters, especially since I know ...
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Which of these combinations is useless?
Reading Peter Van Roy's "Paradigms for Dummies", I am a bit stuck with the second footnote.
Van Roy presents a graph depicting paradigms with different combinations of attributes for state. ...
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Is declarative programming just imperative programming 'under the hood'?
From my understanding, in declarative programming, programmer only need to define the end result, but not how to compute it. But for execute that said function, the function must be pre-defined by the ...
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Is assignment declarative or imperative?
On Wikipedia, the article Programming paradigms defines
declarative as a paradigm in which the programmer merely declares properties of the desired result, but not how to compute it;
imperative as a ...
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Colleague wants web apps to behave like Windows desktop programs
I have been creating new ASP.Net web apps for my workplace intranet (it is a closed system, not accessible to customers) and also re-creating some existing Windows programs as web applications. One ...
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What's an abstraction?
I know this is a very basic topic, but I'm curious why an abstraction in programming is always defined as a simplification/hiding of some functionality. Let's say I wrote a set of functions that let ...
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Temporal logic as a programming language paradigm?
So I'm aware there's some degree of timing-based logic in existing programming languages, like threads and the sleep() function (and derivatives thereof), as well as events / delegates.
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Before OOP, how were systems modeled [closed]
Before the advent of OOP, how were systems modeled in other paradigms of Programming.
Obviously, software programs existed prior to 1970's and they interacted with people and where used in crucial ...
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is there any difference between Structured and Procedural Paradigm?
Procedural Paradigm according to Wikipedia:
Procedural programming is a programming paradigm, derived from structured programming, based on the concept of the procedure call. Procedures, also known ...
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How to reconcile Dependency Injection and Convention over Configuration?
Dependency Injection forbids casual use of new. It favors good old reference passing. It says to put new as high up the call stack as possible.
Convention over Configuration says the common path ...
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What Actually make a Paradigm qualify as being called Structured
According to What Wikipedia says about Structured Programming Paradigm
The following qualifies a language to be called Structured
"Sequence"; ordered statements or subroutines executed in sequence.
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Do functions make Java a functional programming language? [closed]
I have been struggling to understand programming paradigms.
OOP is a paradigm with sole aim of modeling complex (real-world) systems, and it got me thinking:
is OOP the only programming paradigm ...
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Python - Paradigm to compute different formulas with the same function
I have different equations to compute the same quantity. For example, val = my_func(a, b, c) but also val = my_func(x, y), where my_func represents the quantity I would like to compute: it could be ...
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What is the programming paradigm when I just use functions in a file to organize my program?
I'm programming a telegram bot with Python and, for a number of reasons, there are no classes in the whole project, just several functions correlated to the the file where they are located. E.g., my ...
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What to do if some parameters become constants inside a particular class
I'm sure there's some programming paradigm to cover this case, but I can't find the correct wording for it, and therefore my Google-fu is worthless.
I have a class called SimpleWorld that has methods,...
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The dilemma of implementing virtual inheritance
I am working on a program language, and I came to the dilemma whether it should support virtual inheritance or not.
As a designer and implementer of the language, including that feature represents ...
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Do functional programming languages disallow side effects?
According to Wikipedia, Functional programming languages, that are Declarative, they disallow side effects. Declarative programming in general, attempts to minimize or eliminate side effects.
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Is it possible to say that the difference between imperative programming and declarative programming is merely in the level of abstraction?
Is it possible to say that the difference between imperative programming and declarative programming is merely in the level of abstraction? I.e. where the imperative programming will say "break the ...
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Has any language enforced Command–query separation?
As described here, a function can be said to be a query when it returns a value, and a command when it modifies a value. It also states that a function should not be both.
That a query should not be ...
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How to manage configuration and state in a program
At my company we have multiple C# programs that use Dictionaries in a config class to keep track of the configuration and state of the program.
For example,
bool isFoo = config.GetBool("Foo");
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Error handling considerations
The problem:
Since long time, I am worried about the exceptions mechanism, because I feel it does not really resolve what it should.
CLAIM: There are long debates outside about this topic, and most ...
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Neural Networks - The birth of a new programming paradigm
Lately, there has been a lot of hype around Neural Networks. They took over the field of AI, finding applications in computer vision, medicine, natural language processing, etc.
There are active ...
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What is the proper terminology for this sort of thing? [closed]
A construct I often use when the list of "things to make a decision on" gets too big to be practical in an if/else or switch statement is to make a table with values and callbacks. For example, ...
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Did GO embrace any language construct introduced in Java?
GO has embraced,
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JavaScript/Python language constructs,
Higher order function
Closure
Slicing
Range operator
Anonymous function(inner function)
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Is there a programming paradigm that promotes making dependencies extremely obvious to other programmers?
I work in a Data Warehouse that sources multiple systems via many streams and layers with maze-like dependencies linking various artifacts. Pretty much every day I run into situations like this: I run ...
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Is there a structure/pattern/format that most functions follow?
First time posting.
I know this is a very generalized question, sorry for that, I don't know how to more appropriately word this.
I've noticed a trend, a pattern in methods, it seems in almost all ...
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Functional Programming in PHP
Modern PHP is mostly written Object Oriented. Other than the fact that there is inertia towards the Object Oriented in the PHP community, is there anything about the language itself that would make it ...
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Modernize a compiler, late switch of generation-paradigm
Have been hired to modernize an old binary compiler that has been forgotten since a few years by people who have died already.
The compiler has
a parser,
an objectmodel and
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Exception Handling: When and Why?
The main languages I use are C++ and Java.
Both languages support exception handling.
I confess, I may not actually understand exception handling, at least, I certainly don't understand why you ...
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Are the paradigms of ReactJS and Redux worthwhile for things other than web-development?
I'm a bit fascinated by the current paradigms shift libraries like ReactJs and Redux have caused in web development. Apart from computer science classes, I wasn't much affected by functional ...
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Would it be possible to create functional, object oriented or declarative architectures? [closed]
My question originates from the fact that the most common architectures are inherently imperative (i.e. the machine language is imperative).
Would it be possible to create a computer architecture ...
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Connect different programming paradigms in a real app written in JavaScript [duplicate]
I am learning functional programming, working generally with JavaScript. Many things look promising, like immutable data and stateless flow.
Now, I want to build quite a basic CRUD app as a pet ...
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Can I avoid more faults if I use different paradigms for the implementation and the specification/tests?
Since it is convenient for the developer, the same paradigm are often used for implementations and specifications, e.g.
for testing (e.g. Java for the implementation and unit tests, Scala for the ...
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Looking for a specific programming paradigm [closed]
I am searching for programming languages with a certain paradigm, or the name of the paradigm which works like follows:
You start with writing the source code of a program or something more like a ...
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What is the functional programming answer to type-based invariants?
I am aware that the concept of invariants exists across multiple programming paradigms. For example, loop invariants are relevant in OO, functional and procedural programming.
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Advantages of the imperative style over the functional style [duplicate]
There's a lot of hype over functional languages right now, and I've spent the last year studying Haskell as my intro to FP as a result. Seeing the advantages FP provides is easy (such as referential ...
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Statistics about the usage of programming paradigms [closed]
I hear very often that the object-oriented programming paradigm is the most widespread. But are there any scientific statistics about how often other programming paradigms like procedural programming ...
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Modern OOP vs Alan Kays OOP [closed]
I've recently come to discover there's actually a strong amount of criticism towards what people refer to as "modern OOP" - often comparing it to either functional programming or Alan Kays' OOP.
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Various methods manipulating same member variable versus each takes inputs and provides output [closed]
As software design paradigm which is better? to let various methods manipulate a member variable, or define each method or function to take some inputs and provide some outputs?
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What is design pattern/paradigm for ASP.NET web-apps? [closed]
I don't actually know if my question is correct, but working on a webapp porting from ASP.NET world to Java + Spring platform I came up with this question in mind.
Using Spring MVC, the new version ...
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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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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?
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