CSE 341 -- Programming Language Families

Principal programming language paradigms:

imperative, procedural
object-oriented
functional
logic

In addition to high-level languages, we have machine language and assembler language. (Current programmers rarely write in these, however.)

Imperative (procedural) language family:

Fortran
Algol family:
- Algol-60
- Pascal
- Modula-X
- Ada
BCPL, C
Lisp, Scheme (both have functional subsets)

Object-Oriented Languages

Simula (1960s)
Smalltalk (1970s-present)
C++, Objective C
Common Lisp Object System (CLOS)
Java

Functional Languages

Miranda
ML
Haskell

Logic Programming Languages

Prolog
CLP(R)

Lots of others: APL, PL/I, Cobol, Snobol, Icon, Tk/Tcl, Perl, ZPL, ...

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