Towards Multi-Paradigm Software Development

Multi-paradigm software development is a possible an-swer to attempts of finding the best paradigm. It was present in software development at the level of intuition and practiced as the “implementation detail ” without a real support in design. Recently it is making a twofold breakthrough: several recent programming paradigms are encouraging it, while explicit multi-paradigm ap-proaches aim at its full-scale support. In order to demonstrate this, a survey of selected recent software development programming paradigms aspect-oriented approaches and generative programming and multi-paradigm approaches multi-paradigm programming in Leda, multi-paradigm design in C, and intentional programming is presented. The survey is preceded and underpinned by the analysis of the concept of paradigm in computer science in the context of software development, since there is no com-mon agreement about the meaning of this term, despite its wide use. The analysis has showed that there are two meanings of paradigm: large-scale and small-scale