Combating the paucity of paradigms in current oop teaching. Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit

If Java has succeeded in putting OOP on the map as the generalized approach to software development, it has also greatly reduced the natural diversity of program-ming languages that make computer science such an exciting field. This has led to a significant impoverishment of current academic offering, which in turn reflects badly on the capacity of future computer science professionals to react to the evolution in technology that undoubtedly lies in store for them. In this paper we advocate the (re)inclusion of the study of multiple paradigms in our academic curricula, in par-ticular object flavoured ones. The results of an interesting experience in this context are proposed as a first step in this direction