Paradigms

• Action
• Agent-oriented
• Array-oriented
• Automata-based
• Concurrent computing
  • Relativistic programming
• Data-driven
• Declarative (contrast: Imperative)
  • Functional
    • Functional logic
    • Purely functional
  • Logic
    • Abductive logic
    • Answer set
    • Concurrent logic
    • Functional logic
    • Inductive logic
  • Constraint
    • Constraint logic
      • Concurrent constraint logic
  • Dataflow
    • Flow-based
    • Reactive Programming Paradigm (Dataflow)
  • Ontology
• Differentiable
• Dynamic/scripting
• Event-driven
• Function-level (contrast: Value-level)
  • Point-free style
    • Concatenative
• Generic
• Imperative (contrast: Declarative)
  • Procedural
  • Object-oriented
• Literate
• Language-oriented
  • Natural-language programming
  • Discipline-specific
  • Domain-specific
  • Grammar-oriented
  • Intentional
• Metaprogramming
  • Automatic
    • Inductive programming
  • Reflective
    • Attribute-oriented
  • Macro
  • Template
• Non-structured (contrast: Structured)
  • Array
• Nondeterministic
• Parallel computing
  • Process-oriented
• Probabilistic
• Stack-based
• Structured (contrast: Non-structured)
  • Block-structured
  • Object-oriented
    • Actor-based
    • Class-based
    • Concurrent
    • Prototype-based
    • By separation of concerns:
      • Aspect-oriented
      • Role-oriented
      • Subject-oriented
  • Recursive
• Symbolic
• Value-level (contrast: Function-level)
• Quantum programming

Comparisons

see Programming Languages - Paradigms Comparisons