Poly-paradigm programming

This refers to the use of multiple styles of programming for an application. Object oriented, functional, procedural, query based, message oriented languages can be used together for building an application.

Over the years, we have seen the evolution of different styles in programming. It has been largely procedural in the early days. Then functional programming started gaining popularity.

Soon object oriented programming become popular leading to modelling real world entities as objects in the software world.

Query based programming come into prominence to standardize and make it easy to interact with the database. Similarly message oriented programming came about to make it easy to send and receive asynchronous messages.

Though the trend has been to adopt the popular paradigm at the start of the project, it was soon realized that each paradigm has its own advantages and disadvantages. And it has become common to adopt different paradigms for different areas of the application, selecting the most suitable paradigm for the specific area.

Majority of polyglot programming uses languages adopting different paradigms to take advantage of each to solve specific problem areas.

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