CSE3302 Programming Languages (things to say)

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CSE3302Programming Languages(things to say)

• Dr. Carter Tiernan

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Programming Language Paradigms

• A programming paradigm is a paradigmatic style of
  programming (compare with a methodology which is
  a paradigmatic style of doing software
  engineering).
• A programming paradigm provides (and determines)
  the view that the programmer has of the execution
  of the program.
• The relationship between programming paradigms
  and programming languages can be complex since a
  programming language can support multiple
  paradigms.

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Analysis of Paradigms

• Name structures
• Data structures
• Control structures

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Paradigms

• Procedural
• Object-oriented
• Functional
• Logic
• What differentiates these paradigms?

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Paradigm Definitions

• Focusing on
• actions in a program with control handled through
  subprograms
• elements of a system to be modeled and the
  behaviors of those elements
• application of functions with little distinction
  between program and data
• defining the program logic and not explicitly
  handling program control

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Issues with Paradigms

• One language one paradigm?
• Programming vs. Computer language?
• Languages that dont fit in the four paradigms
  discussed

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Other Paradigms (?)
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Paradigm questions

• Why have different language paradigms developed?
• Which comes first - a new language or a new
  paradigm?
• How does a paradigm help us?

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CSE3302 Questions

• Why do we have you study languages? (Have you
  learned anything that might be useful?)
• Should we make a distinction between
  programming and computerlanguages as
  MacLennan does? Should we teach both? Using the
  language structure?

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CSE3302 Questions

• concepts approach versus the comparison
  approach (MacLennan)
• Would you prefer the concepts approach?
• Would it be easier or harder to compare
  languages?
• Topics that could be added to CSE3302?