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[Walter Bright]

On 11/15/2011 12:43 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> If you would consider at least two paradigms as multiparadigm then I would say
> that a lot of languages are multiparadigm.

We could bikeshed forever what is a paradigm and what isn't, and how many 
constitutes multi, etc.

But whatever color one's shed is painted, it's pretty clear that D supports an 
unusually large number of paradigms for a programming language. It doesn't start 
from an idea that "everything is an object".

For example, Haskell is described as:

"Haskell is a standardized, general-purpose purely functional programming 
language, with non-strict semantics and strong static typing" --- 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(programming_language)

which certainly suggests a single paradigm language.

"Smalltalk is an object-oriented, dynamically typed, reflective programming 
language." --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk

"Java is a general-purpose, concurrent, class-based, object-oriented language 
that is specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as 
possible." --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)

"Go is a compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language" --- 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)


What does Wikipedia have to say about C++?

"C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose 
programming language." --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B

It's a markedly different tone from the others.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about what a multi-paradigm language is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-paradigm_programming_language#Multi-paradigm_programming_language