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• FWIW (Score:1)

  by cog (4665)

  FWIW, back at Uni we actually have the following classes: Programming Paradigms I, II, III and IV.
  
  What we learn in these classes is, respectively, Functional, Imperative, Logic and OO programming.
  
  In my case, this was done mostly with Haskell, C, Prolog and Java (sometimes they change the languages).
  
  There was also a teacher who used to say that databases are a paradigm on its own.
  
  Also, I was first introduced to Perl in the classes of "Scripting as a Programming Paradigm".
  • Re:FWIW (Score:1)

    by luqui (5770)

    > What we learn in these classes is, respectively,
    > Functional, Imperative, Logic and OO programming.
    
    Yep, those are the four that I identified in my last post. However, I argue that OO is an "abstraction style", and not a "control style", which is what I'm looking for.
    • Re:FWIW (Score:1)

      by chromatic (983)

      If you want a control style, where does event-driven programming fit? What if it's asynchronous?
      • Re:FWIW (Score:1)

        by luqui (5770)

        > If you want a control style, where does
        > event-driven programming fit? What if it's
        > asynchronous?
        
        I define the control paradigm by the input (code) and the output (what happens when you run it). In the event driven case, you give it actions to execute when certain things happen. But the first part is the important part, you're giving it actions, and it tells you what happens when those actions are executed, even though those actions are triggered rather than sequenced. Therefore, I think event
• Hmm... (Score:2)

  by autrijus (1505)

  I'll probably call it autonomous programming, or even proof-assisted programming.
  • Re:Hmm... (Score:1)

    by Ruud (6456)

    I was thinking in the direction of Genetic Algorithms: the programming is in the training.
  • Re:Hmm... (Score:1)

    by n1vux (1492)

    Genetic algorithms, and also perhaps other relaxation / constraint techniques like the Simplex method of Linear programming?

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    Bill
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    • Re:Hmm... (Score:1)

      by luqui (5770)

      > Genetic algorithms, and also perhaps other
      > relaxation / constraint techniques like the
      > Simplex method of Linear programming?
      
      The only thing I know about linear programming is that my grad-student friend is taking a course in it and he's working his ass off... :-)
      
      Genetic algorithms are an interesting idea for this control style. My thinking (and my toy implementation [luqui.org]) was that you would specify a class of functions, and it would find which function in that class that mapped a given input to a g
• I should have read this before replying before (Score:1)

  by Crag (6470)

  I like your logic, but I don't know how you'd make a programming language out of that fourth type. But then, I don't grok logical programming either, so maybe it's just me.
• The fourth paradigm (Score:1)

  by Trieu (6480)

  I liked the logic. When you give the fourth paradigm a result. There might be so many *actions* corresponding to that unique result. So, the next step is that, which actions should be the best. --> Optimization? (Hey, assume that the 4th paradigm was made :-)