Initial overexposure to the imperative programming paradigm can make it very difficult to introduce students to other paradigms, such as the functional, object oriented and logical paradigms. It is important that students be exposed to several programming paradigms early. Two techniques commonly used to accomplish this are a “survey of languages” approach and use of a language, such as Scheme, that overlaps several paradigms. We propose the use of a paradigm-general pseudocode that can then be translated into the most appropriate target language. This paper describes in detail the features and form of this pseudocode using familiar algorithms. This approach has been used successfully in an upper division class and we believe it can be refined and introduced earlier in the curriculum.

Teaching multiple programming paradigms: a proposal for a paradigm general pseudocode

The word paradigm, is used in computer science to talk about a family of notations, that share a common way for describing program implementations. Since each paradigm is well suited for solving only a range of problems, ideally a large system should be subdivided into components, each of which should be implemented in the most appropriate paradigm. Multiparadigm programming, allows the programmer to implement a system, in a number of different paradigms. The use of multiparadigm programming techniques, could lower implementation costs, and result in more reliable and efficient applications. The difficulties that arise with multiparadigm programming can be separated into the areas of application development in multiple paradigms, design and implementation of multiparadigm environment, and generators for creating such environments. We propose the use of object-oriented design techniques as a method for encapsulating programming paradigms within multiparadigm applications, and for abstracting common characteristics across paradigms. These techniques can be used to design practical multiparadigm environment generators, and implement multiparadigm programming environments supporting a wide variety of paradigms. In order to demonstrate the validity of our approach, we describe the design and implementation of three prototypes: one in each problem area. The integrator is a multiparadigm application dealing with the numeric and symbolic evaluation of integrals. The symbolic evaluation is based on the backtracking resolution mechanism offered by the logic programming paradigm, and the numeric evaluation, on the infinite streams implemented in the functional paradigm. Additionally, lexical analysis of the input expressions is described using regular expressions, and the expression grammar is described using a BNF syntax. Finally, expression simplification uses a term rewrite system, and graphing of functions is done by directly interacting with Unix tools. Integrator is implemented in the blueprint multiparadigm programming environment, a prototype implementation of the six paradigms based on our object-oriented approach. Many different implementation techniques have been applied in order to demonstrate the wide applicability of our approach. Some of the paradigms are implemented as compilers (using existing implementations where possible), and others are implemented as interpreters. Finally, the implementation of blueprint is based on the MPSS multiparadigm environment generator. This, allows the description of paradigms as object classes using paradigm description files. Additionally, it provides a multiparadigm link editor, and support for incorporating existing compilers into multiparadigm programming environments.

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Programming Paradigms as Object Classes: A Structuring Mechanism for Multiparadigm Programming

Language and Architecture Paradigms as Object Classes

Computer language paradigms offer linguistic abstractions and proof theories for expressing program implementations. Similarly, system architectures offer the hardware abstractions and quantitative theories applicable to the execution of compiled programs. Although the two entities are usually treated independently, object-oriented technology can be used to obtain a unifying framework. Specifically, inheritance can be used to model both programming languages as extensions to the assembly language executed by the target architecture, and system architectures as the root class of those paradigms. We describe how these principles can be used to model, structure and implement real multiparadigm systems in a portable and extendable way.

Language and architecture paradigms as object classes: a unified approach towards multiparadigm programming

Multiparadigm programming allows the programmer to write the implementation of a system in a number of different paradigms. We describe our approach to multiparadigm programming based on modeling programming paradigms as object classes. In particular, objects can be used to encapsulate program modules, and classes to encapsulate their respective paradigms. The paradigm class hierarchy can then be used to abstract common paradigm characteristics and the call-gate, a local inter-operation abstraction can be used to flatten the class hierarchy into a collection of paradigms. We use this object-oriented structuring mechanism to provide the base for designing multiparadigm environment generators. In order to demonstrate our approach we develop MPSS, a multiparadigm environment generator, use it to implement blueprint, a six paradigm programming environment, and use all its paradigms in a numerical and symbolic integration package.

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Using Objects for Structuring Multiparadigm Programming Environments

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Teaching multiple programming paradigms: a proposal for a paradigm general pseudocode

Programming Paradigms as Object Classes: A Structuring Mechanism for Multiparadigm Programming

Language and Architecture Paradigms as Object Classes

Language and architecture paradigms as object classes: a unified approach towards multiparadigm programming

Using Objects for Structuring Multiparadigm Programming Environments