Interesting take on Paradigms (OO vs Procedural)

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Why did the originators of object orientation rename "structures" to
"objects"
and "procedures" to "methods"?  Hubris and arrogance, in my opinion.  Some
people believe object orientation is a completely new "paradigm" for
programming.  The best known paradigms for computer languages are these.

- Procedural languages:  Fortran, C, Pascal
- Functional languages:  Lisp, Scheme, Haskell
- Logic languages:  Prolog
- Object-oriented languages:  Java, Smalltalk, C++

The first three of these really use very different ways of thinking about
how
to program a computer.  Object-oriented languages are mostly a gloss on
procedural languages.

The one part of object-orientation that really stands out, and might give
it
claim to being a separate "paradigm," is _polymorphism_.
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