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Functional vs Object-Oriented Programming Paradigms

John Nweke on January 31, 2024

So, my CS Students keep asking me - what are the differences between Procedural and Object-oriented programming languages? Makes sense that the i...
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Ranjan Dailata •

Consider providing some more examples of Functional Programming.

Also example about the pros and cons for the same.

Here are a few more functional programming languages.

  • Haskell
  • SML
  • Clojure
  • Scala
  • Erlang
  • Clean
  • F#
  • ML/OCaml
  • Lisp / Scheme
  • XSLT
  • SQL
  • Mathematica
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Ranjan Dailata •

Great post.

Please do explain about the Hybrid programming languages, for example - Rust, Python

Rust is a multi-paradigm programming language that is not strictly object-oriented or functional

Python is primarily an object-oriented programming (OOP) language, but it also supports functional programming

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InsouciantQualms •

Very nice. Though in my mind, procedural (aka imperative) is different from functional, which itself is different from object-oriented.