note AidanLee <p>Well, pulling open the book from that course I took, they give four categories: Imperative, Functional, Logic, and Object Oriented. I know my professor threw in Generic because of she was aware of developments in that category outside of C++'s templating system. I also know of a supplemental category, [id://116815|Aspect Oriented Programming], which is just recently being researched.</p> <p>I find that the easiest way to get the sense of a programming category is to list examples of which languages fall where:</p> <p> Object Oriented: Smalltalk<br /> Functional: LISP, APL, ML, Haskell<br /> Logic: Prolog<br /> Imperative: C </p> 131789 131869