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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about classification of programming languages. For definition of the term "programming model", see <a href="Programming_model" title="Programming model">Programming model</a>.</div>
<p>A <b>programming paradigm</b> is a relatively high-level way to conceptualize and structure the implementation of a <a href="Computer_program" title="Computer program">computer program</a>. A <a href="Programming_language" title="Programming language">programming language</a> can be classified as supporting one or more paradigms.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Paradigms are separated along and described by different dimensions of programming. Some paradigms are about implications of the <a href="Execution_model" title="Execution model">execution model</a>, such as allowing <a href="Side_effect_(computer_science)" title="Side effect (computer science)">side effects</a>, or whether the sequence of operations is defined by the execution model. Other paradigms are about the way code is organized, such as grouping into units that include both state and behavior. Yet others are about <a href="Syntax_(programming_languages)" title="Syntax (programming languages)">syntax</a> and <a href="Formal_grammar" title="Formal grammar">grammar</a>.
</p><p>Some common programming paradigms include (shown in <a href="Hierarchical_relationship" class="mw-redirect" title="Hierarchical relationship">hierarchical relationship</a>):<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-symbolic-programming-lisp_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-symbolic-programming-lisp-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li><a href="Imperative_programming" title="Imperative programming">Imperative</a> – code directly controls <a href="Control_flow" title="Control flow">execution flow</a> and state change, explicit statements that change a program state
<ul><li><a href="Procedural_programming" title="Procedural programming">procedural</a> – organized as <a href="Function_(computer_programming)" title="Function (computer programming)">procedures</a> that call each other</li>
<li><a href="Object-oriented_programming" title="Object-oriented programming">object-oriented</a> – organized as <a href="Object_(computer_science)" title="Object (computer science)">objects</a> that contain both data structure and associated behavior, uses data structures consisting of data fields and methods together with their interactions (objects) to design programs
<ul><li><a href="Class_(computer_programming)" title="Class (computer programming)">Class-based</a> – object-oriented programming in which inheritance is achieved by defining classes of objects, versus the objects themselves</li>
<li><a href="Prototype-based_programming" title="Prototype-based programming">Prototype-based</a> – object-oriented programming that avoids classes and implements inheritance via cloning of instances</li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Declarative_programming" title="Declarative programming">Declarative</a> – code declares properties of the desired result, but not how to compute it, describes what computation should perform, without specifying detailed state changes
<ul><li><a href="Functional_programming" title="Functional programming">functional</a> – a desired result is declared as the value of a series of function evaluations, uses evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids state and mutable data</li>
<li><a href="Logic_programming" title="Logic programming">logic</a> – a desired result is declared as the answer to a question about a system of facts and rules, uses explicit mathematical logic for programming</li>
<li><a href="Reactive_programming" title="Reactive programming">reactive</a> – a desired result is declared with data streams and the propagation of change</li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Concurrent_programming_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Concurrent programming language">Concurrent programming</a> – has language constructs for concurrency, these may involve multi-threading, support for distributed computing, message passing, shared resources (including shared memory), or <a href="Futures_and_promises" title="Futures and promises">futures</a>
<ul><li><a href="Actor_model" title="Actor model">Actor programming</a> – concurrent computation with <i>actors</i> that make local decisions in response to the environment (capable of selfish or competitive behaviour)</li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Constraint_programming" title="Constraint programming">Constraint programming</a> – relations between variables are expressed as constraints (or constraint networks), directing allowable solutions (uses constraint satisfaction or <a href="Simplex_algorithm" title="Simplex algorithm">simplex algorithm</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Dataflow" title="Dataflow">Dataflow programming</a> – forced recalculation of formulas when data values change (e.g. <a href="Spreadsheet" title="Spreadsheet">spreadsheets</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Distributed_computing" title="Distributed computing">Distributed programming</a> – has support for multiple autonomous computers that communicate via computer networks</li>
<li><a href="Generic_programming" title="Generic programming">Generic programming</a> – uses algorithms written in terms of to-be-specified-later types that are then instantiated as needed for specific types provided as parameters</li>
<li><a href="Metaprogramming" title="Metaprogramming">Metaprogramming</a> – writing programs that write or manipulate other programs (or themselves) as their data, or that do part of the work at compile time that would otherwise be done at runtime
<ul><li><a href="Template_metaprogramming" title="Template metaprogramming">Template metaprogramming</a> – metaprogramming methods in which a compiler uses templates to generate temporary source code, which is merged by the compiler with the rest of the source code and then compiled</li>
<li><a href="Reflective_programming" title="Reflective programming">Reflective programming</a> – metaprogramming methods in which a program modifies or extends itself</li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Pipeline_programming" class="mw-redirect" title="Pipeline programming">Pipeline programming</a> – a simple syntax change to add syntax to nest function calls to language originally designed with none</li>
<li><a href="Rule-based_programming" class="mw-redirect" title="Rule-based programming">Rule-based programming</a> – a network of rules of thumb that comprise a knowledge base and can be used for expert systems and problem deduction &amp; resolution</li>
<li><a href="Visual_programming_language" title="Visual programming language">Visual programming</a> – manipulating program elements graphically rather than by specifying them textually (e.g. <a href="Simulink" title="Simulink">Simulink</a>); also termed <i>diagrammatic programming'</i></li></ul>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2></div>

<p>Programming paradigms come from <a href="Computer_science" title="Computer science">computer science</a> <a href="Research" title="Research">research</a> into existing practices of <a href="Software_development" title="Software development">software development</a>. The findings allow for describing and comparing programming practices and the languages used to code programs. For perspective, other fields of research study
<a href="Software_engineering" title="Software engineering">software engineering</a> <a href="Process" title="Process">processes</a> and describe various <a href="Methodology" title="Methodology">methodologies</a> to describe and compare them.
</p><p>A <a href="Programming_language" title="Programming language">programming language</a> can be described in terms of paradigms. Some languages support only one paradigm. For example, <a href="Smalltalk" title="Smalltalk">Smalltalk</a> supports object-oriented and <a href="Haskell" title="Haskell">Haskell</a> supports functional. Most languages support multiple paradigms. For example, a program written in <a href="C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a>, <a href="Object_Pascal" title="Object Pascal">Object Pascal</a>, or <a href="PHP" title="PHP">PHP</a> can be purely <a href="Procedural_programming" title="Procedural programming">procedural</a>, purely <a href="Object-oriented_programming" title="Object-oriented programming">object-oriented</a>, or can contain aspects of both paradigms, or others.
</p><p>When using a language that supports multiple paradigms, the developer chooses which paradigm elements to use. But, this choice may not involve considering paradigms per se. The developer often uses the features of a language as the language provides them and to the extent that the developer knows them. Categorizing the resulting <a href="Source_code" title="Source code">code</a> by paradigm is often an academic activity done in retrospect.
</p><p>Languages categorized as <b>imperative paradigm</b> have two main features: they state the order in which operations occur, with constructs that explicitly control that order, and they allow side effects, in which state can be modified at one point in time, within one unit of code, and then later read at a different point in time inside a different unit of code. The communication between the units of code is not explicit.
</p><p>In contrast, languages in the <b>declarative paradigm</b> do not state the order in which to execute operations. Instead, they supply a number of available operations in the system, along with the conditions under which each is allowed to execute.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The implementation of the language's execution model tracks which operations are free to execute and chooses the order independently. More at <a href="Comparison_of_multi-paradigm_programming_languages" title="Comparison of multi-paradigm programming languages">Comparison of multi-paradigm programming languages</a>.
</p><p>In <b>object-oriented</b> programming, code is organized into <a href="Object_(programming)" class="mw-redirect" title="Object (programming)">objects</a> that contain state that is owned by and (usually) controlled by the code of the object. Most object-oriented languages are also imperative languages.
</p><p>In object-oriented programming, programs are treated as a set of interacting objects. In <a href="Functional_programming" title="Functional programming">functional programming</a>, programs are treated as a sequence of stateless function evaluations. When programming computers or systems with many processors, in <a href="Process-oriented_programming" title="Process-oriented programming">process-oriented programming</a>, programs are treated as sets of concurrent processes that act on a logical shared <a href="Data_structure" title="Data structure">data structures</a>.
</p><p>Many programming paradigms are as well known for the techniques they <i>forbid</i> as for those they <i>support</i>. For instance, pure functional programming disallows <a href="Side-effect_(computer_science)" class="mw-redirect" title="Side-effect (computer science)">side-effects</a>, while <a href="Structured_programming" title="Structured programming">structured programming</a> disallows the <a href="Goto" title="Goto">goto</a> construct. Partly for this reason, new paradigms are often regarded as doctrinaire or overly rigid by those accustomed to older ones.<sup id="cite_ref-rubin87goto_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rubin87goto-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Yet, avoiding certain techniques can make it easier to understand program behavior, and to <a href="Automated_theorem_proving" title="Automated theorem proving">prove theorems</a> about program correctness.
</p><p>Programming paradigms can also be compared with <i><a href="Programming_model" title="Programming model">programming models</a></i>, which allows invoking an <a href="Execution_model" title="Execution model">execution model</a> by using only an API. Programming models can also be classified into paradigms based on features of the execution model.
</p><p>For <a href="Parallel_computing" title="Parallel computing">parallel computing</a>, using a programming model instead of a language is common. The reason is that details of the parallel hardware leak into the abstractions used to program the hardware. This causes the programmer to have to map patterns in the algorithm onto patterns in the execution model (which have been inserted due to leakage of hardware into the abstraction). As a consequence, no one parallel programming language maps well to all computation problems. Thus, it is more convenient to use a base sequential language and insert API calls to parallel execution models via a programming model. Such parallel programming models can be classified according to abstractions that reflect the hardware, such as <a href="Shared_memory" title="Shared memory">shared memory</a>, <a href="Distributed_memory" title="Distributed memory">distributed memory</a> with <a href="Message_passing" title="Message passing">message passing</a>, notions of <i>place</i> visible in the code, and so forth. These can be considered flavors of programming paradigm that apply to only parallel languages and programming models.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism">Criticism</h2></div>
<p>Some programming language researchers criticise the notion of paradigms as a classification of programming languages, e.g. Harper,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Krishnamurthi.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They argue that many programming languages cannot be strictly classified into one paradigm, but rather include features from several paradigms. See <a href="Comparison_of_multi-paradigm_programming_languages" title="Comparison of multi-paradigm programming languages">Comparison of multi-paradigm programming languages</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>
<p>Different approaches to programming have developed over time. Classification of each approach was either described at the time the approach was first developed, but often not until some time later, retrospectively. An early approach consciously identified as such is <a href="Structured_programming" title="Structured programming">structured programming</a>, advocated since the mid 1960s. The concept of a <i>programming paradigm</i> as such dates at least to 1978, in the <a href="Turing_Award" title="Turing Award">Turing Award</a> lecture of <a href="Robert_W._Floyd" title="Robert W. Floyd">Robert W. Floyd</a>, entitled <i>The Paradigms of Programming</i>, which cites the notion of paradigm as used by <a href="Thomas_Kuhn" title="Thomas Kuhn">Thomas Kuhn</a> in his <i><a href="The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions" title="The Structure of Scientific Revolutions">The Structure of Scientific Revolutions</a></i> (1962).<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Early programming languages did not have clearly defined programming paradigms and sometimes programs made extensive use of goto statements. Liberal use of which lead to <a href="Spaghetti_code" title="Spaghetti code">spaghetti code</a> which is difficult to understand and maintain. This led to the development of structured programming paradigms that disallowed the use of goto statements; only allowing the use of more structured programming constructs.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Languages_and_paradigms">Languages and paradigms</h2></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Machine_code">Machine code</h3></div>
<p><a href="Machine_code" title="Machine code">Machine code</a> is the lowest-level of computer programming as it is <a href="Instruction_set" class="mw-redirect" title="Instruction set">machine instructions</a> that define behavior at the lowest level of abstract possible for a computer. As it is the most prescriptive way to code it is classified as imperative.
</p><p>It is sometimes called the <a href="First-generation_programming_language" title="First-generation programming language">first-generation programming language</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Assembly">Assembly</h3></div>
<p><a href="Assembly_language" title="Assembly language">Assembly language</a> introduced mnemonics for machine instructions and <a href="Memory_address" title="Memory address">memory addresses</a>. Assembly is classified as imperative and is sometimes called the <a href="Second-generation_programming_language" title="Second-generation programming language">second-generation programming language</a>.
</p><p>In the 1960s, assembly languages were developed to support library COPY and quite sophisticated conditional macro generation and preprocessing abilities, CALL to <a href="Subroutine" class="mw-redirect" title="Subroutine">subroutine</a>, external variables and common sections (globals), enabling significant code re-use and isolation from hardware specifics via the use of logical operators such as READ/WRITE/GET/PUT. Assembly was, and still is, used for time-critical systems and often in <a href="Embedded_system" title="Embedded system">embedded systems</a> as it gives the most control of what the machine does.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Procedural_languages">Procedural languages</h3></div>
<p><a href="Procedural_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Procedural language">Procedural languages</a>, also called the <a href="Third-generation_programming_language" title="Third-generation programming language">third-generation programming languages</a> are the first described as <a href="High-level_programming_language" title="High-level programming language">high-level languages</a>. They support vocabulary related to the problem being solved. For example,
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<ul><li>COmmon Business Oriented Language (<a href="COBOL" title="COBOL">COBOL</a>)&nbsp;– uses terms like <a href="Computer_file" title="Computer file">file</a>, <a href="Move_(command)" title="Move (command)">move</a> and <a href="Copy_(command)" title="Copy (command)">copy</a>.</li>
<li>FORmula TRANslation (<a href="FORTRAN" class="mw-redirect" title="FORTRAN">FORTRAN</a>)&nbsp;– using <a href="Mathematical" class="mw-redirect" title="Mathematical">mathematical</a> language terminology, it was developed mainly for scientific and engineering problems.</li>
<li>ALGOrithmic Language (<a href="ALGOL" title="ALGOL">ALGOL</a>)&nbsp;– focused on being an appropriate language to define <a href="Algorithm" title="Algorithm">algorithms</a>, while using mathematical language terminology, targeting scientific and engineering problems, just like FORTRAN.</li>
<li>Programming Language One (<a href="PL/I" title="PL/I">PL/I</a>)&nbsp;– a hybrid commercial-scientific general purpose language supporting <a href="Pointer_(computer_programming)" title="Pointer (computer programming)">pointers</a>.</li>
<li>Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (<a href="BASIC" title="BASIC">BASIC</a>)&nbsp;– it was developed to enable more people to write programs.</li>
<li><a href="C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a>&nbsp;– a general-purpose programming language, initially developed by <a href="Dennis_Ritchie" title="Dennis Ritchie">Dennis Ritchie</a> between 1969 and 1973 at <a href="AT%26T_Bell_Labs" class="mw-redirect" title="AT&amp;T Bell Labs">AT&amp;T Bell Labs</a>.</li></ul>
<p>These languages are classified as procedural paradigm. They directly control the step by step process that a computer program follows. The <a href="Efficacy" title="Efficacy">efficacy</a> and <a href="Algorithmic_efficiency" title="Algorithmic efficiency">efficiency</a> of such a program is therefore highly dependent on the programmer's skill.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Object-oriented_programming">Object-oriented programming</h3></div>
<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Object-oriented_programming" title="Object-oriented programming">Object-oriented programming</a></div>
<p>In attempt to improve on procedural languages, <a href="Object-oriented_programming" title="Object-oriented programming">object-oriented programming</a> (OOP) languages were created, such as <a href="Simula" title="Simula">Simula</a>, <a href="Smalltalk" title="Smalltalk">Smalltalk</a>, <a href="C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a>, <a href="Eiffel_(programming_language)" title="Eiffel (programming language)">Eiffel</a>, <a href="Python_(programming_language)" title="Python (programming language)">Python</a>, <a href="PHP" title="PHP">PHP</a>, <a href="Java_(programming_language)" title="Java (programming language)">Java</a>, and <a href="C_Sharp_(programming_language)" title="C Sharp (programming language)">C#</a>. In these languages, <a href="Data" title="Data">data</a> and methods to manipulate the data are in the same code unit called an <a href="Object_(computer_science)" title="Object (computer science)">object</a>. This <a href="Encapsulation_(computer_programming)" title="Encapsulation (computer programming)">encapsulation</a> ensures that the only way that an object can access data is via <i><a href="Method_(computer_programming)" title="Method (computer programming)">methods</a></i> of the object that contains the data. Thus, an object's inner workings may be changed without affecting code that uses the object.
</p><p>There is <a href="Object-oriented_programming#Criticism" title="Object-oriented programming">controversy</a> raised by <a href="Alexander_Stepanov" title="Alexander Stepanov">Alexander Stepanov</a>, <a href="Richard_Stallman" title="Richard Stallman">Richard Stallman</a><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and other programmers, concerning the efficacy of the OOP paradigm versus the procedural paradigm. The need for every object to have associative methods leads some skeptics to associate OOP with <a href="Software_bloat" title="Software bloat">software bloat</a>; an attempt to resolve this dilemma came through <a href="Polymorphism_(computer_science)" title="Polymorphism (computer science)">polymorphism</a>.
</p><p>Although most OOP languages are third-generation, it is possible to create an object-oriented assembler language. <a href="High_Level_Assembly" title="High Level Assembly">High Level Assembly</a> (HLA) is an example of this that fully supports advanced data types and object-oriented assembly language programming&nbsp;– despite its early origins. Thus, differing programming paradigms can be seen rather like <i>motivational <a href="Meme" title="Meme">memes</a></i> of their advocates, rather than necessarily representing progress from one level to the next. Precise comparisons of competing paradigms' efficacy are frequently made more difficult because of new and differing terminology applied to similar entities and processes together with numerous implementation distinctions across languages.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Declarative_languages">Declarative languages</h3></div>
<p>A <a href="Declarative_programming" title="Declarative programming">declarative programming</a> program describes what the problem is, not how to solve it. The program is structured as a set of properties to find in the expected result, not as a procedure to follow. Given a database or a set of rules, the computer tries to find a solution matching all the desired properties. An archetype of a declarative language is the <a href="Fourth-generation_programming_language" title="Fourth-generation programming language">fourth generation language</a> <a href="SQL" title="SQL">SQL</a>, and the family of functional languages and logic programming.
</p><p><a href="Functional_programming" title="Functional programming">Functional programming</a> is a subset of declarative programming. Programs written using this paradigm use <a href="Subroutine" class="mw-redirect" title="Subroutine">functions</a>, blocks of code intended to behave like <a href="Function_(mathematics)" title="Function (mathematics)">mathematical functions</a>. Functional languages discourage changes in the value of variables through <a href="Assignment_(computer_science)" title="Assignment (computer science)">assignment</a>, making a great deal of use of <a href="Recursion_(computer_science)" title="Recursion (computer science)">recursion</a> instead.
</p><p>The <a href="Logic_programming" title="Logic programming">logic programming</a> paradigm views computation as <a href="Automated_reasoning" title="Automated reasoning">automated reasoning</a> over a body of knowledge. Facts about the <a href="Domain_(software_engineering)" title="Domain (software engineering)">problem domain</a> are expressed as logic formulas, and programs are executed by applying <a href="Inference_rule" class="mw-redirect" title="Inference rule">inference rules</a> over them until an answer to the problem is found, or the set of formulas is proved inconsistent.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_paradigms">Other paradigms</h3></div>
<p><a href="Symbolic_programming" title="Symbolic programming">Symbolic programming</a> is a paradigm that describes programs able to manipulate formulas and program components as data.<sup id="cite_ref-symbolic-programming-lisp_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-symbolic-programming-lisp-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Programs can thus effectively modify themselves, and appear to "learn", making them suited for applications such as <a href="Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence">artificial intelligence</a>, <a href="Expert_system" title="Expert system">expert systems</a>, <a href="Natural-language_processing" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural-language processing">natural-language processing</a> and computer games. Languages that support this paradigm include <a href="Lisp_(programming_language)" title="Lisp (programming language)">Lisp</a> and <a href="Prolog" title="Prolog">Prolog</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><a href="Differentiable_programming" title="Differentiable programming">Differentiable programming</a> structures programs so that they can be <a href="Differentiation_(mathematics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Differentiation (mathematics)">differentiated</a> throughout, usually via <a href="Automatic_differentiation" title="Automatic differentiation">automatic differentiation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-innes_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-innes-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><a href="Literate_programming" title="Literate programming">Literate programming</a>, as a form of <a href="Imperative_programming" title="Imperative programming">imperative programming</a>, structures programs as a human-centered web, as in a <a href="Hypertext" title="Hypertext">hypertext</a> essay: documentation is integral to the program, and the program is structured following the logic of prose exposition, rather than compiler convenience.
</p><p><a href="Symbolic_programming" title="Symbolic programming">Symbolic programming</a> techniques such as <a href="Reflective_programming" title="Reflective programming">reflective programming</a> (reflection), which allow a program to refer to itself, might also be considered as a programming paradigm. However, this is compatible with the major paradigms and thus is not a real paradigm in its own right.
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<ul><li><a href="Domain-specific_language" title="Domain-specific language">Domain-specific language</a></li>
<li><a href="Flow-based_programming" title="Flow-based programming">Flow-based programming</a></li>
<li><a href="Modeling_language" title="Modeling language">Modeling language</a></li>
<li><a href="Programming_domain" title="Programming domain">Programming domain</a></li>
<li><a href="Turing_completeness" title="Turing completeness">Turing completeness</a></li>
<li><a href="Von_Neumann_programming_languages" title="Von Neumann programming languages">Von Neumann programming languages</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Architecture_description_language" title="Architecture description language">Architecture description</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_exchange#Data_exchange_languages" title="Data exchange">Data exchange</a></li>
<li><a href="Hardware_description_language" title="Hardware description language">Hardware description</a></li>
<li><a href="Knowledge_representation_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Knowledge representation language">Knowledge representation</a></li>
<li><a href="Markup_language" title="Markup language">Markup</a></li>
<li><a href="Modeling_language" title="Modeling language">Modeling</a></li>
<li><a href="Programming_language" title="Programming language">Programming language</a></li>
<li><a href="Query_language" title="Query language">Query</a></li>
<li><a href="Shading_language" title="Shading language">Shading</a></li>
<li><a href="Specification_language" title="Specification language">Specification</a></li>
<li><a href="Style_sheet_language" title="Style sheet language">Stylesheet</a></li>
<li><a href="Transformation_language" title="Transformation language">Transformation</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li>Category:Lists of computer languages</li>
<li>Category:Lists of programming languages</li>
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<ul><li><a href="Computer_programming" title="Computer programming">Computer programming</a></li>
<li><a href="DevOps" title="DevOps">DevOps</a></li>
<li><a href="Empirical_software_engineering" title="Empirical software engineering">Empirical software engineering</a></li>
<li><a href="Experimental_software_engineering" title="Experimental software engineering">Experimental software engineering</a></li>
<li><a href="Formal_methods" title="Formal methods">Formal methods</a></li>
<li><a href="Requirements_engineering" title="Requirements engineering">Requirements engineering</a></li>
<li><a href="Search-based_software_engineering" title="Search-based software engineering">Search-based software engineering</a></li>
<li><a href="Site_reliability_engineering" title="Site reliability engineering">Site reliability engineering</a></li>
<li><a href="Social_software_engineering" title="Social software engineering">Social software engineering</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_deployment" title="Software deployment">Software deployment</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_design" title="Software design">Software design</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_maintenance" title="Software maintenance">Software maintenance</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_testing" title="Software testing">Software testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Systems_analysis" title="Systems analysis">Systems analysis</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Abstraction_(computer_science)" title="Abstraction (computer science)">Abstraction</a></li>
<li><a href="CI/CD" title="CI/CD">CI/CD</a></li>
<li><a href="Computer_compatibility" title="Computer compatibility">Compatibility</a>
<ul><li><a href="Backward_compatibility" title="Backward compatibility">Backward compatibility</a></li>
<li><a href="Compatibility_layer" title="Compatibility layer">Compatibility layer</a></li>
<li><a href="Compatibility_mode" title="Compatibility mode">Compatibility mode</a></li>
<li><a href="Forward_compatibility" title="Forward compatibility">Forward compatibility</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_incompatibility" title="Software incompatibility">Software incompatibility</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Component-based_software_engineering" title="Component-based software engineering">Component-based software engineering</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_modeling" title="Data modeling">Data modeling</a></li>
<li><a href="Enterprise_architecture" title="Enterprise architecture">Enterprise architecture</a></li>
<li><a href="Functional_specification" title="Functional specification">Functional specification</a></li>
<li><a href="Modeling_language" title="Modeling language">Modeling language</a></li>

<li><a href="Software" title="Software">Software</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_archaeology" title="Software archaeology">Software archaeology</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_architecture" title="Software architecture">Software architecture</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_configuration_management" title="Software configuration management">Software configuration management</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_development_process" title="Software development process">Software development process/methodology</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_quality" title="Software quality">Software quality</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_quality_assurance" title="Software quality assurance">Software quality assurance</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_system" title="Software system">Software system</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_verification_and_validation" title="Software verification and validation">Software verification and validation</a></li>
<li><a href="Structured_analysis" title="Structured analysis">Structured analysis</a>
<ul><li><a href="Essential_systems_analysis" title="Essential systems analysis">Essential analysis</a></li></ul></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Agile_software_development" title="Agile software development">Agile</a></li>
<li><a href="Aspect-oriented_programming" title="Aspect-oriented programming">Aspect-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="Object-oriented_programming" title="Object-oriented programming">Object orientation</a></li>
<li><a href="Ontology_(information_science)" title="Ontology (information science)">Ontology</a></li>
<li><a href="Systems_development_life_cycle" title="Systems development life cycle">SDLC</a></li>
<li><a href="Service-oriented_architecture" title="Service-oriented architecture">Service orientation</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Agile_software_development" title="Agile software development">Agile</a></li>
<li><a href="Enterprise_unified_process" title="Enterprise unified process">EUP</a></li>
<li><a href="Executable_UML" title="Executable UML">Executable UML</a></li>
<li><a href="Incremental_build_model" title="Incremental build model">Incremental model</a></li>
<li><a href="Iterative_and_incremental_development" title="Iterative and incremental development">Iterative model</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_prototyping" title="Software prototyping">Prototype model</a></li>
<li><a href="Rapid_application_development" title="Rapid application development">RAD</a></li>
<li><a href="Scrum_(software_development)" title="Scrum (software development)">Scrum</a></li>
<li><a href="Spiral_model" title="Spiral model">Spiral model</a></li>
<li><a href="Unified_process" title="Unified process">UP</a></li>
<li><a href="V-model_(software_development)" title="V-model (software development)">V-model</a></li>
<li><a href="Waterfall_model" title="Waterfall model">Waterfall model</a></li>
<li><a href="Extreme_programming" title="Extreme programming">XP</a></li>
<li><a href="Model-driven_engineering" title="Model-driven engineering">Model-driven engineering</a></li>
<li><a href="Round-trip_engineering" title="Round-trip engineering">Round-trip engineering</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Capability_Maturity_Model_Integration" title="Capability Maturity Model Integration">CMMI</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_model" title="Data model">Data model</a></li>
<li><a href="Entity%E2%80%93relationship_model" title="Entity–relationship model">ER model</a></li>
<li><a href="Function_model" title="Function model">Function model</a></li>
<li><a href="Information_model" title="Information model">Information model</a></li>
<li><a href="Metamodeling" title="Metamodeling">Metamodeling</a></li>
<li><a href="Object_model" title="Object model">Object model</a></li>
<li><a href="ISO/IEC_15504" title="ISO/IEC 15504">SPICE</a></li>
<li><a href="Systems_modeling" title="Systems modeling">Systems model</a></li>
<li><a href="View_model" title="View model">View model</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="IDEF" title="IDEF">IDEF</a></li>
<li><a href="Systems_modeling_language" title="Systems modeling language">SysML</a></li>
<li><a href="Unified_Modeling_Language" title="Unified Modeling Language">UML</a></li>
<li><a href="Universal_Systems_Language" title="Universal Systems Language">USL</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Systems_design" title="Systems design">Systems design</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Software_requirements_specification" title="Software requirements specification"> Requirements</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Functional_requirement" title="Functional requirement">Functional requirement</a></li>
<li><a href="Non-functional_requirement" title="Non-functional requirement">Non-functional requirement</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Capacity_planning" title="Capacity planning"> Capacity</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Active_users" title="Active users"> Users</a></li>
<li><a href="Central_processing_units" class="mw-redirect" title="Central processing units"> Compute</a></li>
<li><a href="Computer_memory" title="Computer memory"> Memory</a></li>
<li><a href="Computer_data_storage" title="Computer data storage"> Storage</a></li>
<li><a href="Bandwidth_(computing)" title="Bandwidth (computing)"> Network</a></li>
<li><a href="Web_traffic" title="Web traffic">Web traffic</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Interface_(computing)" title="Interface (computing)"> Interface</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="API" title="API">API</a></li>
<li><a href="SOAP" title="SOAP">SOAP</a></li>
<li><a href="REST" title="REST">REST</a></li>
<li><a href="GraphQL" title="GraphQL">GraphQL</a></li>
<li><a href="GRPC" title="GRPC">gRPC</a></li>
<li><a href="Webhook" title="Webhook">Webhook</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="High-level_design" title="High-level design">High-level design</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Client_(computing)" title="Client (computing)"> Client</a></li>
<li><a href="Load_balancing_(computing)" title="Load balancing (computing)"> Load balancing</a></li>
<li><a href="Application_server" title="Application server">Application server</a></li>
<li><a href="Message_queue" title="Message queue">Message queue</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Vertical_integration" title="Vertical integration"> Vertical</a></li>
<li><a href="Peer-to-peer" title="Peer-to-peer">Peer-to-peer</a></li>
<li><a href="API_management" title="API management"> API Gateway</a></li>
<li><a href="Publish%E2%80%93subscribe_pattern" title="Publish–subscribe pattern"> pub-sub</a></li>
<li><a href="Event_store" title="Event store"> Event Source</a></li>
<li><a href="Extract%2C_transform%2C_load" title="Extract, transform, load"> ETL</a></li>
<li><a href="Batch_processing" title="Batch processing"> Batch</a></li>
<li><a href="Stream_processing" title="Stream processing">Stream</a></li>
<li><a href="Orchestration_(computing)" title="Orchestration (computing)"> Orchestration</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Monolithic_application" title="Monolithic application"> Monolithic</a></li>
<li><a href="Microservices" title="Microservices">Microservices</a></li>
<li><a href="Event-driven_architecture" title="Event-driven architecture"> Event-Driven</a></li>
<li><a href="Client%E2%80%93server_model" title="Client–server model"> Client–server</a></li>
<li><a href="Serverless_computing" title="Serverless computing"> Serverless</a></li>
<li><a href="Circuit_breaker_design_pattern" title="Circuit breaker design pattern"> Circuit breaker</a></li>
<li><a href="Rate_limiting" title="Rate limiting">Rate limiting</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Relational_database" title="Relational database"> Relational</a></li>
<li><a href="NoSQL" title="NoSQL">NoSQL</a></li>
<li><a href="Graph_database" title="Graph database"> Graph</a></li>
<li><a href="Key%E2%80%93value_database" title="Key–value database"> Key–value</a></li>
<li><a href="Log-structured_merge-tree" title="Log-structured merge-tree"> LSM Tree </a></li>
<li><a href="Time_series_database" title="Time series database"> Time series</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_orientation" title="Data orientation"> Column Oriented</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Consistency_(database_systems)" title="Consistency (database systems)">Consistency</a></li>
<li><a href="Reliability_engineering" title="Reliability engineering">Reliability</a></li>
<li><a href="CAP_theorem" title="CAP theorem">CAP theorem</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_maintenance" title="Software maintenance"> Maintainability</a></li>
<li><a href="Computer_configuration" title="Computer configuration"> Configurability</a></li>
<li><a href="Modularity" title="Modularity">Modularity</a></li>
<li><a href="Durability_(database_systems)" title="Durability (database systems)"> Durability</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Service_statelessness_principle" title="Service statelessness principle"> Stateless</a></li>
<li><a href="Asynchronous_I/O" title="Asynchronous I/O">Asynchronous I/O</a></li>
<li><a href="Loose_coupling" title="Loose coupling">Loose coupling</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Fault_tolerance" title="Fault tolerance">Fault tolerance</a></li>
<li><a href="Failover" title="Failover">Failover</a></li>
<li><a href="Single_point_of_failure" title="Single point of failure">Single point of failure</a></li>
<li><a href="Replication_(computing)" title="Replication (computing)"> Replication</a></li>
<li><a href="Consistent_hashing" title="Consistent hashing">Consistent hashing</a></li>
<li><a href="Circuit_breaker_design_pattern" title="Circuit breaker design pattern"> Circuit breaker</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Latency_(engineering)" title="Latency (engineering)">Latency</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Cache_(computing)" title="Cache (computing)"> Cache</a></li>
<li><a href="Content_delivery_network" title="Content delivery network"> CDN</a></li>
<li><a href="Shard_(database_architecture)" title="Shard (database architecture)"> Shard </a></li>
<li><a href="Database_index" title="Database index">Database index</a></li>
<li><a href="Cache_prefetching" title="Cache prefetching"> Pre-caching</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="Computer_data_storage" title="Computer data storage"> Storage</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Object_storage" title="Object storage">Object storage</a></li>
<li><a href="Block-level_storage" title="Block-level storage"> Block storage</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Logging_(computing)" title="Logging (computing)"> Logging</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_metric" title="Software metric"> Metrics</a></li>
<li><a href="Tracing_(software)" title="Tracing (software)"> Tracing </a></li>
<li><a href="Failure_rate" title="Failure rate"> Error rate </a></li>
<li><a href="Queries_per_second" title="Queries per second">Queries per second </a></li>
<li><a href="Notification_system" title="Notification system">Notification system</a></li>
<li><a href="Anomaly_detection" title="Anomaly detection">Anomaly detection</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Computer_engineering" title="Computer engineering">Computer engineering</a></li>
<li><a href="Computer_science" title="Computer science">Computer science</a></li>
<li><a href="Information_science" title="Information science">Information science</a></li>
<li><a href="Project_management" title="Project management">Project management</a></li>
<li><a href="Risk_management" title="Risk management">Risk management</a></li>
<li><a href="Systems_engineering" title="Systems engineering">Systems engineering</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Printed_circuit_board" title="Printed circuit board">Printed circuit board</a></li>
<li><a href="Peripheral" title="Peripheral">Peripheral</a></li>
<li><a href="Integrated_circuit" title="Integrated circuit">Integrated circuit</a></li>
<li><a href="Very-large-scale_integration" title="Very-large-scale integration">Very-large-scale integration</a></li>
<li><a href="System_on_a_chip" title="System on a chip">System on a chip</a> (SoC)</li>
<li><a href="Green_computing" title="Green computing">Energy consumption</a> (green computing)</li>
<li><a href="Electronic_design_automation" title="Electronic design automation">Electronic design automation</a></li>
<li><a href="Hardware_acceleration" title="Hardware acceleration">Hardware acceleration</a></li>
<li><a href="Processor_(computing)" title="Processor (computing)">Processor</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_computer_size_categories" title="List of computer size categories">Size</a> / <a href="Form_factor_(design)" title="Form factor (design)">Form</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Computer_architecture" title="Computer architecture">Computer architecture</a></li>
<li><a href="Computational_complexity" title="Computational complexity">Computational complexity</a></li>
<li><a href="Dependability" title="Dependability">Dependability</a></li>
<li><a href="Embedded_system" title="Embedded system">Embedded system</a></li>
<li><a href="Real-time_computing" title="Real-time computing">Real-time computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Cyber-physical_system" title="Cyber-physical system">Cyber-physical system</a></li>
<li><a href="Fault_tolerance" title="Fault tolerance">Fault tolerance</a></li>
<li><a href="Wireless_sensor_network" title="Wireless sensor network">Wireless sensor network</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Network_architecture" title="Network architecture">Network architecture</a></li>
<li><a href="Communication_protocol" title="Communication protocol">Network protocol</a></li>
<li><a href="Networking_hardware" title="Networking hardware">Network components</a></li>
<li><a href="Network_scheduler" title="Network scheduler">Network scheduler</a></li>
<li><a href="Network_performance" title="Network performance">Network performance evaluation</a></li>
<li><a href="Network_service" title="Network service">Network service</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Interpreter_(computing)" title="Interpreter (computing)">Interpreter</a></li>
<li><a href="Middleware" title="Middleware">Middleware</a></li>
<li><a href="Virtual_machine" title="Virtual machine">Virtual machine</a></li>
<li><a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_quality" title="Software quality">Software quality</a></li></ul>
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<ul>
<li><a href="Programming_language" title="Programming language">Programming language</a></li>
<li><a href="Compiler_construction" class="mw-redirect" title="Compiler construction">Compiler</a></li>
<li><a href="Domain-specific_language" title="Domain-specific language">Domain-specific language</a></li>
<li><a href="Modeling_language" title="Modeling language">Modeling language</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_framework" title="Software framework">Software framework</a></li>
<li><a href="Integrated_development_environment" title="Integrated development environment">Integrated development environment</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_configuration_management" title="Software configuration management">Software configuration management</a></li>
<li><a href="Library_(computing)" title="Library (computing)">Software library</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_repository" title="Software repository">Software repository</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Control_flow" title="Control flow">Control variable</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_development_process" title="Software development process">Software development process</a></li>
<li><a href="Requirements_analysis" title="Requirements analysis">Requirements analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_design" title="Software design">Software design</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_construction" title="Software construction">Software construction</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_deployment" title="Software deployment">Software deployment</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_engineering" title="Software engineering">Software engineering</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_maintenance" title="Software maintenance">Software maintenance</a></li>
<li><a href="Programming_team" title="Programming team">Programming team</a></li>
<li><a href="Open-source_software" title="Open-source software">Open-source model</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Theory_of_computation" title="Theory of computation">Theory of computation</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Model_of_computation" title="Model of computation">Model of computation</a>
<ul><li><a href="Stochastic_computing" title="Stochastic computing">Stochastic</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Formal_language" title="Formal language">Formal language</a></li>
<li><a href="Automata_theory" title="Automata theory">Automata theory</a></li>
<li><a href="Computability_theory" title="Computability theory">Computability theory</a></li>
<li><a href="Computational_complexity_theory" title="Computational complexity theory">Computational complexity theory</a></li>
<li><a href="Logic_in_computer_science" title="Logic in computer science">Logic</a></li>
<li><a href="Semantics_(computer_science)" title="Semantics (computer science)">Semantics</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Algorithm" title="Algorithm">Algorithms</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Algorithm_design" class="mw-redirect" title="Algorithm design">Algorithm design</a></li>
<li><a href="Analysis_of_algorithms" title="Analysis of algorithms">Analysis of algorithms</a></li>
<li><a href="Algorithmic_efficiency" title="Algorithmic efficiency">Algorithmic efficiency</a></li>
<li><a href="Randomized_algorithm" title="Randomized algorithm">Randomized algorithm</a></li>
<li><a href="Computational_geometry" title="Computational geometry">Computational geometry</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Mathematics of <a href="Computing" title="Computing">computing</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Discrete_mathematics" title="Discrete mathematics">Discrete mathematics</a></li>
<li><a href="Probability" title="Probability">Probability</a></li>
<li><a href="Statistics" title="Statistics">Statistics</a></li>
<li><a href="Mathematical_software" title="Mathematical software">Mathematical software</a></li>
<li><a href="Information_theory" title="Information theory">Information theory</a></li>
<li><a href="Mathematical_analysis" title="Mathematical analysis">Mathematical analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="Numerical_analysis" title="Numerical analysis">Numerical analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="Theoretical_computer_science" title="Theoretical computer science">Theoretical computer science</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Database" title="Database">Database management system</a></li>
<li><a href="Computer_data_storage" title="Computer data storage">Information storage systems</a></li>
<li><a href="Enterprise_information_system" title="Enterprise information system">Enterprise information system</a></li>
<li><a href="Social_software" title="Social software">Social information systems</a></li>
<li><a href="Geographic_information_system" title="Geographic information system">Geographic information system</a></li>
<li><a href="Decision_support_system" title="Decision support system">Decision support system</a></li>
<li><a href="Industrial_process_control" title="Industrial process control">Process control system</a></li>
<li><a href="Multimedia_database" title="Multimedia database">Multimedia information system</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_mining" title="Data mining">Data mining</a></li>
<li><a href="Digital_library" title="Digital library">Digital library</a></li>
<li><a href="Computing_platform" title="Computing platform">Computing platform</a></li>
<li><a href="Digital_marketing" title="Digital marketing">Digital marketing</a></li>
<li><a href="World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web">World Wide Web</a></li>
<li><a href="Information_retrieval" title="Information retrieval">Information retrieval</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Computer_security" title="Computer security">Security</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Cryptography" title="Cryptography">Cryptography</a></li>
<li><a href="Formal_methods" title="Formal methods">Formal methods</a></li>
<li><a href="Security_hacker" title="Security hacker">Security hacker</a></li>
<li><a href="Security_service_(telecommunication)" title="Security service (telecommunication)">Security services</a></li>
<li><a href="Intrusion_detection_system" title="Intrusion detection system">Intrusion detection system</a></li>
<li><a href="Hardware_security" title="Hardware security">Hardware security</a></li>
<li><a href="Network_security" title="Network security">Network security</a></li>
<li><a href="Information_security" title="Information security">Information security</a></li>
<li><a href="Application_security" title="Application security">Application security</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a class="external text external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-centered_computing">Human–centered computing</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Interaction_design" title="Interaction design">Interaction design</a></li>
<li><a href="Augmented_reality" title="Augmented reality">Augmented reality</a></li>
<li><a href="Virtual_reality" title="Virtual reality">Virtual reality</a></li>
<li><a href="Social_computing" title="Social computing">Social computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Ubiquitous_computing" title="Ubiquitous computing">Ubiquitous computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Visualization_(graphics)" title="Visualization (graphics)">Visualization</a></li>
<li><a href="Computer_accessibility" title="Computer accessibility">Accessibility</a></li>
<li><a href="Human%E2%80%93computer_interaction" title="Human–computer interaction">Human–computer interaction</a></li>
<li><a href="Mobile_computing" title="Mobile computing">Mobile computing</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Concurrent_computing" title="Concurrent computing">Concurrent computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Parallel_computing" title="Parallel computing">Parallel computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Distributed_computing" title="Distributed computing">Distributed computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Multithreading_(computer_architecture)" title="Multithreading (computer architecture)">Multithreading</a></li>
<li><a href="Multiprocessing" title="Multiprocessing">Multiprocessing</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Natural_language_processing" title="Natural language processing">Natural language processing</a></li>
<li><a href="Knowledge_representation_and_reasoning" title="Knowledge representation and reasoning">Knowledge representation and reasoning</a></li>
<li><a href="Computer_vision" title="Computer vision">Computer vision</a></li>
<li><a href="Automated_planning_and_scheduling" title="Automated planning and scheduling">Automated planning and scheduling</a></li>
<li><a href="Mathematical_optimization" title="Mathematical optimization">Search methodology</a></li>
<li><a href="Control_theory" title="Control theory">Control method</a></li>
<li><a href="Philosophy_of_artificial_intelligence" title="Philosophy of artificial intelligence">Philosophy of artificial intelligence</a></li>
<li><a href="Distributed_artificial_intelligence" title="Distributed artificial intelligence">Distributed artificial intelligence</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Supervised_learning" title="Supervised learning">Supervised learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Unsupervised_learning" title="Unsupervised learning">Unsupervised learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Reinforcement_learning" title="Reinforcement learning">Reinforcement learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Multi-task_learning" title="Multi-task learning">Multi-task learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Cross-validation_(statistics)" title="Cross-validation (statistics)">Cross-validation</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Computer_graphics" title="Computer graphics">Graphics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Computer_animation" title="Computer animation">Animation</a></li>
<li><a href="Rendering_(computer_graphics)" title="Rendering (computer graphics)">Rendering</a></li>
<li><a href="Photograph_manipulation" title="Photograph manipulation">Photograph manipulation</a></li>
<li><a href="Graphics_processing_unit" title="Graphics processing unit">Graphics processing unit</a></li>
<li><a href="Image_compression" title="Image compression">Image compression</a></li>
<li><a href="Solid_modeling" title="Solid modeling">Solid modeling</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Applied computing</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Quantum_computing" title="Quantum computing">Quantum computing</a></li>
<li><a href="E-commerce" title="E-commerce">E-commerce</a></li>
<li><a href="Enterprise_software" title="Enterprise software">Enterprise software</a></li>
<li><a href="Computational_mathematics" title="Computational mathematics">Computational mathematics</a></li>
<li><a href="Computational_physics" title="Computational physics">Computational physics</a></li>
<li><a href="Computational_chemistry" title="Computational chemistry">Computational chemistry</a></li>
<li><a href="Computational_biology" title="Computational biology">Computational biology</a></li>
<li><a href="Computational_social_science" title="Computational social science">Computational social science</a></li>
<li><a href="Computational_engineering" title="Computational engineering">Computational engineering</a></li>
<li>Differentiable computing</li>
<li><a href="Health_informatics" title="Health informatics">Computational healthcare</a></li>
<li><a href="Digital_art" title="Digital art">Digital art</a></li>
<li><a href="Electronic_publishing" title="Electronic publishing">Electronic publishing</a></li>
<li><a href="Cyberwarfare" title="Cyberwarfare">Cyberwarfare</a></li>
<li><a href="Electronic_voting" title="Electronic voting">Electronic voting</a></li>
<li><a href="Video_game" title="Video game">Video games</a></li>
<li><a href="Word_processor" title="Word processor">Word processing</a></li>
<li><a href="Operations_research" title="Operations research">Operations research</a></li>
<li><a href="Educational_technology" title="Educational technology">Educational technology</a></li>
<li><a href="Document_management_system" title="Document management system">Document management</a></li></ul>
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<li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Outline"></span></span> <a href="Outline_of_computer_science" title="Outline of computer science">Outline</a></li>
<li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> Glossaries</li></ul>
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<li><a href="Non-structured_programming" title="Non-structured programming">Non-structured</a></li>
<li><a href="Procedural_programming" title="Procedural programming">Procedural</a></li>
<li><a href="Programming_in_the_large_and_programming_in_the_small" title="Programming in the large and programming in the small">Programming in the large and in the small</a></li>
<li><a href="Design_by_contract" title="Design by contract">Design by contract</a></li>
<li><a href="Invariant-based_programming" title="Invariant-based programming">Invariant-based</a></li>
<li><a href="Nested_function" title="Nested function">Nested function</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Object-oriented_programming" title="Object-oriented programming">Object-oriented</a><br>(<a href="Comparison_of_programming_languages_(object-oriented_programming)" title="Comparison of programming languages (object-oriented programming)">comparison</a>, <a href="List_of_object-oriented_programming_languages" title="List of object-oriented programming languages">list</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Class-based_programming" title="Class-based programming">Class-based</a>, <a href="Prototype-based_programming" title="Prototype-based programming">Prototype-based</a>, <a href="Object-based_language" title="Object-based language">Object-based</a></li>
<li><a href="Agent-oriented_programming" title="Agent-oriented programming">Agent</a></li>
<li><a href="Immutable_object" title="Immutable object">Immutable object</a></li>
<li><a href="Persistent_programming_language" title="Persistent programming language">Persistent</a></li>
<li><a href="Uniform_function_call_syntax" title="Uniform function call syntax">Uniform function call syntax</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Declarative_programming" title="Declarative programming">Declarative</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Functional_programming" title="Functional programming">Functional</a><br>(<a href="Comparison_of_functional_programming_languages" title="Comparison of functional programming languages">comparison</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Recursion_(computer_science)" title="Recursion (computer science)">Recursive</a></li>
<li><a href="Anonymous_function" title="Anonymous function">Anonymous function</a> (<a href="Partial_application" title="Partial application">Partial application</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Higher-order_programming" title="Higher-order programming">Higher-order</a></li>
<li><a href="Purely_functional_programming" title="Purely functional programming">Purely functional</a></li>
<li><a href="Total_functional_programming" title="Total functional programming">Total</a></li>
<li><a href="Strict_programming_language" title="Strict programming language">Strict</a></li>
<li><a href="Generalized_algebraic_data_type" title="Generalized algebraic data type">GADTs</a></li>
<li><a href="Dependent_type" title="Dependent type">Dependent types</a></li>
<li><a href="Functional_logic_programming" title="Functional logic programming">Functional logic</a></li>
<li><a href="Tacit_programming" title="Tacit programming">Point-free style</a></li>
<li><a href="Expression-oriented_programming_language" title="Expression-oriented programming language">Expression-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="Applicative_programming_language" title="Applicative programming language">Applicative</a>, <a href="Concatenative_programming_language" title="Concatenative programming language">Concatenative</a></li>
<li><a href="Function-level_programming" title="Function-level programming">Function-level</a>, <a href="Value-level_programming" title="Value-level programming">Value-level</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Dataflow_programming" title="Dataflow programming">Dataflow</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Flow-based_programming" title="Flow-based programming">Flow-based</a></li>
<li><a href="Reactive_programming" title="Reactive programming">Reactive</a> (<a href="Functional_reactive_programming" title="Functional reactive programming">Functional reactive</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Signal_programming" class="mw-redirect" title="Signal programming">Signals</a></li>
<li><a href="Stream_processing" title="Stream processing">Streams</a></li>
<li><a href="Synchronous_programming_language" title="Synchronous programming language">Synchronous</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Logic_programming" title="Logic programming">Logic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Abductive_logic_programming" title="Abductive logic programming">Abductive logic</a></li>
<li><a href="Answer_set_programming" title="Answer set programming">Answer set</a></li>
<li><a href="Constraint_programming" title="Constraint programming">Constraint</a> (<a href="Constraint_logic_programming" title="Constraint logic programming">Constraint logic</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Inductive_logic_programming" title="Inductive logic programming">Inductive logic</a></li>
<li><a href="Nondeterministic_programming" title="Nondeterministic programming">Nondeterministic</a></li>
<li><a href="Ontology_language" title="Ontology language">Ontology</a></li>
<li><a href="Probabilistic_logic_programming" title="Probabilistic logic programming">Probabilistic logic</a></li>
<li><a href="Query_language" title="Query language">Query</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Domain-specific_language" title="Domain-specific language">DSL</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Algebraic_modeling_language" title="Algebraic modeling language">Algebraic modeling</a></li>
<li><a href="Array_programming" title="Array programming">Array</a></li>
<li><a href="Automata-based_programming" title="Automata-based programming">Automata-based</a> (<a href="Action_language" title="Action language">Action</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Command_language" title="Command language">Command</a> (<a href="Spacecraft_command_language" title="Spacecraft command language">Spacecraft</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Differentiable_programming" title="Differentiable programming">Differentiable</a></li>
<li><a href="End-user_development" title="End-user development">End-user</a></li>
<li><a href="Grammar-oriented_programming" title="Grammar-oriented programming">Grammar-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="Interface_description_language" title="Interface description language">Interface description</a></li>
<li><a href="Language-oriented_programming" title="Language-oriented programming">Language-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="List_comprehension" title="List comprehension">List comprehension</a></li>
<li><a href="Low-code_development_platform" title="Low-code development platform">Low-code</a></li>
<li><a href="Modeling_language" title="Modeling language">Modeling</a></li>
<li><a href="Natural-language_programming" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural-language programming">Natural language</a></li>
<li><a href="Non-English-based_programming_languages" title="Non-English-based programming languages">Non-English-based</a></li>
<li><a href="Page_description_language" title="Page description language">Page description</a></li>
<li><a href="Pipeline_(software)" title="Pipeline (software)">Pipes</a> and <a href="Filter_(software)" title="Filter (software)">filters</a></li>
<li><a href="Probabilistic_programming" title="Probabilistic programming">Probabilistic</a></li>
<li><a href="Quantum_programming" title="Quantum programming">Quantum</a></li>
<li><a href="Scientific_programming_language" title="Scientific programming language">Scientific</a></li>
<li><a href="Scripting_language" title="Scripting language">Scripting</a></li>
<li><a href="Set_theoretic_programming" title="Set theoretic programming">Set-theoretic</a></li>
<li><a href="Simulation_language" title="Simulation language">Simulation</a></li>
<li><a href="Stack-oriented_programming" title="Stack-oriented programming">Stack-based</a></li>
<li><a href="System_programming_language" title="System programming language">System</a></li>
<li><a href="Tactile_programming_language" title="Tactile programming language">Tactile</a></li>
<li><a href="Template_processor" title="Template processor">Templating</a></li>
<li><a href="Transformation_language" title="Transformation language">Transformation</a> (<a href="Graph_rewriting" title="Graph rewriting">Graph rewriting</a>, <a href="Production_system_(computer_science)" title="Production system (computer science)">Production</a>, <a href="Pattern_matching" title="Pattern matching">Pattern</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Visual_programming_language" title="Visual programming language">Visual</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Concurrent_computing" title="Concurrent computing">Concurrent</a>,<br><a href="Distributed_computing" title="Distributed computing">distributed</a>,<br><a href="Parallel_computing" title="Parallel computing">parallel</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Actor_model" title="Actor model">Actor-based</a></li>
<li><a href="Automatic_mutual_exclusion" title="Automatic mutual exclusion">Automatic mutual exclusion</a></li>
<li><a href="Choreographic_programming" title="Choreographic programming">Choreographic programming</a></li>
<li><a href="Concurrent_logic_programming" title="Concurrent logic programming">Concurrent logic</a> (<a href="Concurrent_constraint_logic_programming" title="Concurrent constraint logic programming">Concurrent constraint logic</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Concurrent_object-oriented_programming" title="Concurrent object-oriented programming">Concurrent OO</a></li>
<li><a href="Macroprogramming" title="Macroprogramming">Macroprogramming</a></li>
<li><a href="Multitier_programming" title="Multitier programming">Multitier programming</a></li>
<li><a href="Organic_computing" title="Organic computing">Organic computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Parallel_programming_model" title="Parallel programming model">Parallel programming models</a></li>
<li><a href="Partitioned_global_address_space" title="Partitioned global address space">Partitioned global address space</a></li>
<li><a href="Process-oriented_programming" title="Process-oriented programming">Process-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="Relativistic_programming" title="Relativistic programming">Relativistic programming</a></li>
<li><a href="Service-oriented_programming" title="Service-oriented programming">Service-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="Structured_concurrency" title="Structured concurrency">Structured concurrency</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Metaprogramming" title="Metaprogramming">Metaprogramming</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Attribute-oriented_programming" title="Attribute-oriented programming">Attribute-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="Automatic_programming" title="Automatic programming">Automatic</a> (<a href="Inductive_programming" title="Inductive programming">Inductive</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Dynamic_programming_language" title="Dynamic programming language">Dynamic</a></li>
<li><a href="Extensible_programming" title="Extensible programming">Extensible</a></li>
<li><a href="Generic_programming" title="Generic programming">Generic</a></li>
<li><a href="Homoiconicity" title="Homoiconicity">Homoiconicity</a></li>
<li><a href="Interactive_programming" title="Interactive programming">Interactive</a></li>
<li><a href="Macro_(computer_science)" title="Macro (computer science)">Macro</a> (<a href="Hygienic_macro" title="Hygienic macro">Hygienic</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Metalinguistic_abstraction" title="Metalinguistic abstraction">Metalinguistic abstraction</a></li>
<li><a href="Multi-stage_programming" title="Multi-stage programming">Multi-stage</a></li>
<li><a href="Program_synthesis" title="Program synthesis">Program synthesis</a> (<a href="Bayesian_program_synthesis" title="Bayesian program synthesis">Bayesian</a>, <a href="Inferential_programming" title="Inferential programming">Inferential</a>, <a href="Programming_by_demonstration" title="Programming by demonstration">by demonstration</a>, <a href="Programming_by_example" title="Programming by example">by example</a>)</li>
<li><a href="Reflective_programming" title="Reflective programming">Reflective</a></li>
<li><a href="Self-modifying_code" title="Self-modifying code">Self-modifying code</a></li>
<li><a href="Symbolic_programming" title="Symbolic programming">Symbolic</a></li>
<li><a href="Template_metaprogramming" title="Template metaprogramming">Template</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Separation_of_concerns" title="Separation of concerns">Separation<br>of concerns</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Aspect-oriented_programming" title="Aspect-oriented programming">Aspects</a></li>
<li><a href="Component-based_software_engineering" title="Component-based software engineering">Components</a></li>
<li><a href="Data-driven_programming" title="Data-driven programming">Data-driven</a></li>
<li><a href="Data-oriented_design" title="Data-oriented design">Data-oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="Event-driven_programming" title="Event-driven programming">Event-driven</a></li>
<li><a href="Feature-oriented_programming" title="Feature-oriented programming">Features</a></li>
<li><a href="Literate_programming" title="Literate programming">Literate</a></li>
<li><a href="Role-oriented_programming" title="Role-oriented programming">Roles</a></li>
<li><a href="Subject-oriented_programming" title="Subject-oriented programming">Subjects</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
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<ul><li><a href="Machine_code" title="Machine code">Machine</a></li>
<li><a href="Assembly_language" title="Assembly language">Assembly</a></li>
<li><a href="Compiled_language" title="Compiled language">Compiled</a></li>
<li><a href="Interpreted_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Interpreted language">Interpreted</a></li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="Low-level_programming_language" title="Low-level programming language">Low-level</a></li>
<li><a href="High-level_programming_language" title="High-level programming language">High-level</a></li>
<li><a href="Very_high-level_programming_language" title="Very high-level programming language">Very high-level</a></li>
<li><a href="Esoteric_programming_language" title="Esoteric programming language">Esoteric</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Programming_language_generations" title="Programming language generations">Generation</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="First-generation_programming_language" title="First-generation programming language">First</a></li>
<li><a href="Second-generation_programming_language" title="Second-generation programming language">Second</a></li>
<li><a href="Third-generation_programming_language" title="Third-generation programming language">Third</a></li>
<li><a href="Fourth-generation_programming_language" title="Fourth-generation programming language">Fourth</a></li>
<li><a href="Fifth-generation_programming_language" title="Fifth-generation programming language">Fifth</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>
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<ul><li><a href="Comparison_of_programming_languages" title="Comparison of programming languages">Comparison</a></li>
<li><a href="Timeline_of_programming_languages" title="Timeline of programming languages">Timeline</a></li>
<li><a href="History_of_programming_languages" title="History of programming languages">History</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Ada_(programming_language)" title="Ada (programming language)">Ada</a></li>
<li><a href="ALGOL" title="ALGOL">ALGOL</a>
<ul><li><a href="Simula" title="Simula">Simula</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="APL_(programming_language)" title="APL (programming language)">APL</a></li>
<li><a href="Assembly_language" title="Assembly language">Assembly</a></li>
<li><a href="BASIC" title="BASIC">BASIC</a>
<ul><li><a href="Visual_Basic" title="Visual Basic">Visual Basic</a>
<ul><li><a href="Visual_Basic_(classic)" title="Visual Basic (classic)">classic</a></li>
<li><a href="Visual_Basic_(.NET)" title="Visual Basic (.NET)">.NET</a></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="C_(programming_language)" title="C (programming language)">C</a></li>
<li><a href="C%2B%2B" title="C++">C++</a></li>
<li><a href="C_Sharp_(programming_language)" title="C Sharp (programming language)">C#</a></li>
<li><a href="COBOL" title="COBOL">COBOL</a></li>
<li><a href="Erlang_(programming_language)" title="Erlang (programming language)">Erlang</a>
<ul><li><a href="Elixir_(programming_language)" title="Elixir (programming language)">Elixir</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Forth_(programming_language)" title="Forth (programming language)">Forth</a></li>
<li><a href="Fortran" title="Fortran">Fortran</a></li>
<li><a href="Go_(programming_language)" title="Go (programming language)">Go</a></li>
<li><a href="Haskell" title="Haskell">Haskell</a></li>
<li><a href="Java_(programming_language)" title="Java (programming language)">Java</a></li>
<li><a href="JavaScript" title="JavaScript">JavaScript</a></li>
<li><a href="Julia_(programming_language)" title="Julia (programming language)">Julia</a></li>
<li><a href="Kotlin_(programming_language)" title="Kotlin (programming language)">Kotlin</a></li>
<li><a href="Lisp_(programming_language)" title="Lisp (programming language)">Lisp</a></li>
<li><a href="Lua" title="Lua">Lua</a></li>
<li><a href="MATLAB" title="MATLAB">MATLAB</a></li>
<li><a href="ML_(programming_language)" title="ML (programming language)">ML</a>
<ul><li><a href="Caml" title="Caml">Caml </a>
<ul><li><a href="OCaml" title="OCaml">OCaml</a></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Pascal_(programming_language)" title="Pascal (programming language)">Pascal</a>
<ul><li><a href="Object_Pascal" title="Object Pascal">Object Pascal</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Perl" title="Perl">Perl </a>
<ul><li><a href="Raku_(programming_language)" title="Raku (programming language)">Raku</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="PHP" title="PHP">PHP</a></li>
<li><a href="Prolog" title="Prolog">Prolog</a></li>
<li><a href="Python_(programming_language)" title="Python (programming language)">Python</a></li>
<li><a href="R_(programming_language)" title="R (programming language)">R</a></li>
<li><a href="Ruby_(programming_language)" title="Ruby (programming language)">Ruby</a></li>
<li><a href="Rust_(programming_language)" title="Rust (programming language)">Rust</a></li>
<li><a href="SAS_language" title="SAS language">SAS</a></li>
<li><a href="SQL" title="SQL">SQL</a></li>
<li><a href="Scratch_(programming_language)" title="Scratch (programming language)">Scratch</a></li>
<li><a href="Shell_script" title="Shell script">Shell</a></li>
<li><a href="Smalltalk" title="Smalltalk">Smalltalk</a></li>
<li><a href="Swift_(programming_language)" title="Swift (programming language)">Swift</a></li>
<li><i><a href="List_of_programming_languages" title="List of programming languages">more...</a></i></li></ul>
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<li><a href="List_of_programming_languages_by_type" title="List of programming languages by type">Categorical</a></li>
<li><a href="Generational_list_of_programming_languages" title="Generational list of programming languages">Generational</a></li>
<li><a href="Non-English-based_programming_languages" title="Non-English-based programming languages">Non-English-based</a></li>
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<ul><li><a href="Machine_code" title="Machine code">Machine</a></li>
<li><a href="Assembly_language" title="Assembly language">Assembly</a></li>
<li><a href="Compiled_language" title="Compiled language">Compiled</a></li>
<li><a href="Interpreted_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Interpreted language">Interpreted</a></li></ul>
<ul><li><a href="Low-level_programming_language" title="Low-level programming language">Low-level</a></li>
<li><a href="High-level_programming_language" title="High-level programming language">High-level</a></li>
<li><a href="Very_high-level_programming_language" title="Very high-level programming language">Very high-level</a></li>
<li><a href="Esoteric_programming_language" title="Esoteric programming language">Esoteric</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Programming_language_generations" title="Programming language generations">Generation</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="First-generation_programming_language" title="First-generation programming language">First</a></li>
<li><a href="Second-generation_programming_language" title="Second-generation programming language">Second</a></li>
<li><a href="Third-generation_programming_language" title="Third-generation programming language">Third</a></li>
<li><a href="Fourth-generation_programming_language" title="Fourth-generation programming language">Fourth</a></li>
<li><a href="Fifth-generation_programming_language" title="Fifth-generation programming language">Fifth</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Printed_circuit_board" title="Printed circuit board">Printed circuit board</a></li>
<li><a href="Peripheral" title="Peripheral">Peripheral</a></li>
<li><a href="Integrated_circuit" title="Integrated circuit">Integrated circuit</a></li>
<li><a href="Very-large-scale_integration" title="Very-large-scale integration">Very-large-scale integration</a></li>
<li><a href="System_on_a_chip" title="System on a chip">System on a chip</a> (SoC)</li>
<li><a href="Green_computing" title="Green computing">Energy consumption</a> (green computing)</li>
<li><a href="Electronic_design_automation" title="Electronic design automation">Electronic design automation</a></li>
<li><a href="Hardware_acceleration" title="Hardware acceleration">Hardware acceleration</a></li>
<li><a href="Processor_(computing)" title="Processor (computing)">Processor</a></li>
<li><a href="List_of_computer_size_categories" title="List of computer size categories">Size</a> / <a href="Form_factor_(design)" title="Form factor (design)">Form</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Computer systems organization</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Computer_architecture" title="Computer architecture">Computer architecture</a></li>
<li><a href="Computational_complexity" title="Computational complexity">Computational complexity</a></li>
<li><a href="Dependability" title="Dependability">Dependability</a></li>
<li><a href="Embedded_system" title="Embedded system">Embedded system</a></li>
<li><a href="Real-time_computing" title="Real-time computing">Real-time computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Cyber-physical_system" title="Cyber-physical system">Cyber-physical system</a></li>
<li><a href="Fault_tolerance" title="Fault tolerance">Fault tolerance</a></li>
<li><a href="Wireless_sensor_network" title="Wireless sensor network">Wireless sensor network</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Computer_network" title="Computer network">Networks</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Network_architecture" title="Network architecture">Network architecture</a></li>
<li><a href="Communication_protocol" title="Communication protocol">Network protocol</a></li>
<li><a href="Networking_hardware" title="Networking hardware">Network components</a></li>
<li><a href="Network_scheduler" title="Network scheduler">Network scheduler</a></li>
<li><a href="Network_performance" title="Network performance">Network performance evaluation</a></li>
<li><a href="Network_service" title="Network service">Network service</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Software organization</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Interpreter_(computing)" title="Interpreter (computing)">Interpreter</a></li>
<li><a href="Middleware" title="Middleware">Middleware</a></li>
<li><a href="Virtual_machine" title="Virtual machine">Virtual machine</a></li>
<li><a href="Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_quality" title="Software quality">Software quality</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Programming_language_theory" title="Programming language theory">Software notations</a> and <a href="Programming_tool" title="Programming tool">tools</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul>
<li><a href="Programming_language" title="Programming language">Programming language</a></li>
<li><a href="Compiler_construction" class="mw-redirect" title="Compiler construction">Compiler</a></li>
<li><a href="Domain-specific_language" title="Domain-specific language">Domain-specific language</a></li>
<li><a href="Modeling_language" title="Modeling language">Modeling language</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_framework" title="Software framework">Software framework</a></li>
<li><a href="Integrated_development_environment" title="Integrated development environment">Integrated development environment</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_configuration_management" title="Software configuration management">Software configuration management</a></li>
<li><a href="Library_(computing)" title="Library (computing)">Software library</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_repository" title="Software repository">Software repository</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Software_development" title="Software development">Software development</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Control_flow" title="Control flow">Control variable</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_development_process" title="Software development process">Software development process</a></li>
<li><a href="Requirements_analysis" title="Requirements analysis">Requirements analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_design" title="Software design">Software design</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_construction" title="Software construction">Software construction</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_deployment" title="Software deployment">Software deployment</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_engineering" title="Software engineering">Software engineering</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_maintenance" title="Software maintenance">Software maintenance</a></li>
<li><a href="Programming_team" title="Programming team">Programming team</a></li>
<li><a href="Open-source_software" title="Open-source software">Open-source model</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Theory_of_computation" title="Theory of computation">Theory of computation</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Model_of_computation" title="Model of computation">Model of computation</a>
<ul><li><a href="Stochastic_computing" title="Stochastic computing">Stochastic</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Formal_language" title="Formal language">Formal language</a></li>
<li><a href="Automata_theory" title="Automata theory">Automata theory</a></li>
<li><a href="Computability_theory" title="Computability theory">Computability theory</a></li>
<li><a href="Computational_complexity_theory" title="Computational complexity theory">Computational complexity theory</a></li>
<li><a href="Logic_in_computer_science" title="Logic in computer science">Logic</a></li>
<li><a href="Semantics_(computer_science)" title="Semantics (computer science)">Semantics</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Algorithm" title="Algorithm">Algorithms</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Algorithm_design" class="mw-redirect" title="Algorithm design">Algorithm design</a></li>
<li><a href="Analysis_of_algorithms" title="Analysis of algorithms">Analysis of algorithms</a></li>
<li><a href="Algorithmic_efficiency" title="Algorithmic efficiency">Algorithmic efficiency</a></li>
<li><a href="Randomized_algorithm" title="Randomized algorithm">Randomized algorithm</a></li>
<li><a href="Computational_geometry" title="Computational geometry">Computational geometry</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Mathematics of <a href="Computing" title="Computing">computing</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Discrete_mathematics" title="Discrete mathematics">Discrete mathematics</a></li>
<li><a href="Probability" title="Probability">Probability</a></li>
<li><a href="Statistics" title="Statistics">Statistics</a></li>
<li><a href="Mathematical_software" title="Mathematical software">Mathematical software</a></li>
<li><a href="Information_theory" title="Information theory">Information theory</a></li>
<li><a href="Mathematical_analysis" title="Mathematical analysis">Mathematical analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="Numerical_analysis" title="Numerical analysis">Numerical analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="Theoretical_computer_science" title="Theoretical computer science">Theoretical computer science</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Information_system" title="Information system">Information systems</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Database" title="Database">Database management system</a></li>
<li><a href="Computer_data_storage" title="Computer data storage">Information storage systems</a></li>
<li><a href="Enterprise_information_system" title="Enterprise information system">Enterprise information system</a></li>
<li><a href="Social_software" title="Social software">Social information systems</a></li>
<li><a href="Geographic_information_system" title="Geographic information system">Geographic information system</a></li>
<li><a href="Decision_support_system" title="Decision support system">Decision support system</a></li>
<li><a href="Industrial_process_control" title="Industrial process control">Process control system</a></li>
<li><a href="Multimedia_database" title="Multimedia database">Multimedia information system</a></li>
<li><a href="Data_mining" title="Data mining">Data mining</a></li>
<li><a href="Digital_library" title="Digital library">Digital library</a></li>
<li><a href="Computing_platform" title="Computing platform">Computing platform</a></li>
<li><a href="Digital_marketing" title="Digital marketing">Digital marketing</a></li>
<li><a href="World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web">World Wide Web</a></li>
<li><a href="Information_retrieval" title="Information retrieval">Information retrieval</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Computer_security" title="Computer security">Security</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Cryptography" title="Cryptography">Cryptography</a></li>
<li><a href="Formal_methods" title="Formal methods">Formal methods</a></li>
<li><a href="Security_hacker" title="Security hacker">Security hacker</a></li>
<li><a href="Security_service_(telecommunication)" title="Security service (telecommunication)">Security services</a></li>
<li><a href="Intrusion_detection_system" title="Intrusion detection system">Intrusion detection system</a></li>
<li><a href="Hardware_security" title="Hardware security">Hardware security</a></li>
<li><a href="Network_security" title="Network security">Network security</a></li>
<li><a href="Information_security" title="Information security">Information security</a></li>
<li><a href="Application_security" title="Application security">Application security</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a class="external text external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-centered_computing">Human–centered computing</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Interaction_design" title="Interaction design">Interaction design</a></li>
<li><a href="Augmented_reality" title="Augmented reality">Augmented reality</a></li>
<li><a href="Virtual_reality" title="Virtual reality">Virtual reality</a></li>
<li><a href="Social_computing" title="Social computing">Social computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Ubiquitous_computing" title="Ubiquitous computing">Ubiquitous computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Visualization_(graphics)" title="Visualization (graphics)">Visualization</a></li>
<li><a href="Computer_accessibility" title="Computer accessibility">Accessibility</a></li>
<li><a href="Human%E2%80%93computer_interaction" title="Human–computer interaction">Human–computer interaction</a></li>
<li><a href="Mobile_computing" title="Mobile computing">Mobile computing</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Concurrency_(computer_science)" title="Concurrency (computer science)">Concurrency</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Concurrent_computing" title="Concurrent computing">Concurrent computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Parallel_computing" title="Parallel computing">Parallel computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Distributed_computing" title="Distributed computing">Distributed computing</a></li>
<li><a href="Multithreading_(computer_architecture)" title="Multithreading (computer architecture)">Multithreading</a></li>
<li><a href="Multiprocessing" title="Multiprocessing">Multiprocessing</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Artificial_intelligence" title="Artificial intelligence">Artificial intelligence</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Natural_language_processing" title="Natural language processing">Natural language processing</a></li>
<li><a href="Knowledge_representation_and_reasoning" title="Knowledge representation and reasoning">Knowledge representation and reasoning</a></li>
<li><a href="Computer_vision" title="Computer vision">Computer vision</a></li>
<li><a href="Automated_planning_and_scheduling" title="Automated planning and scheduling">Automated planning and scheduling</a></li>
<li><a href="Mathematical_optimization" title="Mathematical optimization">Search methodology</a></li>
<li><a href="Control_theory" title="Control theory">Control method</a></li>
<li><a href="Philosophy_of_artificial_intelligence" title="Philosophy of artificial intelligence">Philosophy of artificial intelligence</a></li>
<li><a href="Distributed_artificial_intelligence" title="Distributed artificial intelligence">Distributed artificial intelligence</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Machine_learning" title="Machine learning">Machine learning</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Supervised_learning" title="Supervised learning">Supervised learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Unsupervised_learning" title="Unsupervised learning">Unsupervised learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Reinforcement_learning" title="Reinforcement learning">Reinforcement learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Multi-task_learning" title="Multi-task learning">Multi-task learning</a></li>
<li><a href="Cross-validation_(statistics)" title="Cross-validation (statistics)">Cross-validation</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Computer_graphics" title="Computer graphics">Graphics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Computer_animation" title="Computer animation">Animation</a></li>
<li><a href="Rendering_(computer_graphics)" title="Rendering (computer graphics)">Rendering</a></li>
<li><a href="Photograph_manipulation" title="Photograph manipulation">Photograph manipulation</a></li>
<li><a href="Graphics_processing_unit" title="Graphics processing unit">Graphics processing unit</a></li>
<li><a href="Image_compression" title="Image compression">Image compression</a></li>
<li><a href="Solid_modeling" title="Solid modeling">Solid modeling</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Applied computing</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Quantum_computing" title="Quantum computing">Quantum computing</a></li>
<li><a href="E-commerce" title="E-commerce">E-commerce</a></li>
<li><a href="Enterprise_software" title="Enterprise software">Enterprise software</a></li>
<li><a href="Computational_mathematics" title="Computational mathematics">Computational mathematics</a></li>
<li><a href="Computational_physics" title="Computational physics">Computational physics</a></li>
<li><a href="Computational_chemistry" title="Computational chemistry">Computational chemistry</a></li>
<li><a href="Computational_biology" title="Computational biology">Computational biology</a></li>
<li><a href="Computational_social_science" title="Computational social science">Computational social science</a></li>
<li><a href="Computational_engineering" title="Computational engineering">Computational engineering</a></li>
<li>Differentiable computing</li>
<li><a href="Health_informatics" title="Health informatics">Computational healthcare</a></li>
<li><a href="Digital_art" title="Digital art">Digital art</a></li>
<li><a href="Electronic_publishing" title="Electronic publishing">Electronic publishing</a></li>
<li><a href="Cyberwarfare" title="Cyberwarfare">Cyberwarfare</a></li>
<li><a href="Electronic_voting" title="Electronic voting">Electronic voting</a></li>
<li><a href="Video_game" title="Video game">Video games</a></li>
<li><a href="Word_processor" title="Word processor">Word processing</a></li>
<li><a href="Operations_research" title="Operations research">Operations research</a></li>
<li><a href="Educational_technology" title="Educational technology">Educational technology</a></li>
<li><a href="Document_management_system" title="Document management system">Document management</a></li></ul>
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