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Re:Ask HN: Okay okay, I'll learn to program...now what? by msg on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @01:16PM (#1611757)
I think of those as more like programming styles. You can program C in a functional style (although the language is not your friend). You can write FORTRAN in any language.

I found personally that event-driven programming (signals, triggers, listeners) is different enough to be considered another style. Synchronization, causal sequences of events, and a clock, used for GUIs or workflows, requires a different sort of thinking than functional, procedural, or OO.

Re:Ask HN: Okay okay, I'll learn to program...now what? by user24 on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @04:08AM (#1613532)
I knew I'd miss one ;)