Multiparadigm programming: guest editors' introduction. IEEE Software, 27 (5) . pp. 2-7. ISSN 0740-7459

Programming languages, frameworks, and platforms require the developer to use a collection of provided programming features—abstractions—to express data, implement desired calculations, interact with other technologies, create user interfaces, and so on. A collection of coherent, often ideologically or theoretically based abstractions constitutes a programming paradigm. Often, a given programming technology is based on one particular paradigm