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. However, I was ...
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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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