A SURVEY OF LANGUAGES INTEGRATING FUNCTIONAL, OBJECT-ORIENTED AND LOGIC PROGRAMMING

Functional, object-oriented and logic programming are widely regarded as the three most dominant programming paradigms nowadays. For the pas t decade, many attempts have been made to integrate these three paradi gms into a single language. This paper is a survey of this new breed o f multiparadigm languages. First we give a succinct introduction to th e three paradigms. Then we discuss a variety of approaches to the inte gration of the three paradigms through an overview of some of the exis ting multiparadigm languages. All possible combinations of the three p aradigms, namely logic + object-oriented, functional + logic, function al + object-oriented, and object-oriented + logic + functional, are co nsidered separately. For the purpose of classification, we have propos ed a design space of programming languages called the FOOL-space.