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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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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'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 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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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 ...
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Why (not) logic programming?

I have not yet heard about any uses of a logical programming language (such as Prolog) in the software industry, nor do I know of usage of it in hobby programming or open source projects. It (Prolog) ...
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Should I pick up a functional programming language?

I have recently been more concerned about the way I write my code. After reading a few books on design patterns (and overzealous implementation of them, I'm sure) I have shifted my thinking greatly ...
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What programming languages should every computer science student be taught?

What languages (or classes (as in paradigms) of programming languages, plus a recommended language of that class) should every computer science student be taught in college according to you? Motivate ...
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Is Language-Oriented Programming practical?

I read this article on Language-Oriented Programming. He points out some weaknesses in the modern procedural/OOP approaches to programming, and suggests a new programming paradigm that will solve them ...
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Is there a programming language with not a tree but tags idea behind OOP?

I'm thinking about tree structures, and I feel that I don't like them. It's like when you have a shop, then you try to put all products to tree-like catalog, and then you need to place one product to ...
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FP and OO orthogonal?

I have heard this time and again and I am trying to understand and validate the idea that FP and OO are orthogonal. First of all, what does it mean for 2 concepts to be orthogonal ? FP encourages ...
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Should all programmers learn at least one very-high-level language?

One mandatory course I took in uni was about functional and logical programming languages (Haskell and Prolog). It was mildly interesting, and most I talked to showed even less interest to the course ...