Editing Programming paradigm (section)

== Criticism ==

Some programming language researchers criticise the notion of paradigms as a classification of programming languages, e.g. Harper,<ref>{{cite web|first=Robert|last=Harper|title=What, if anything, is a programming-paradigm?|url=http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2017/05/what-if-anything-is-a-programming-paradigm/|website = FifteenEightyFour|publisher = Cambridge University Press|date = 1 May 2017}}</ref> and Krishnamurthi.<ref>{{cite journal |first= Shriram |last= Krishnamurthi |publisher= ACM |url= http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1480846 |title= Teaching programming languages in a post-linnaean age |journal= ACM SIGPLAN Notices |date= November 2008 |volume= 43 |issue= 11 |pages= 81–83|doi= 10.1145/1480828.1480846 |s2cid= 35714982 }}.</ref>  They argue that many programming languages cannot be strictly classified into one paradigm, but rather include features from several paradigms. See [[Comparison of multi-paradigm programming languages]].