Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Common Lisp might be a good one to learn. It's even more > "multi-paradigm" than Python. You could very easily learn more > approaches to programming through Common Lisp than three other > languages. This book[2] looks promising.
If you're looking for SERIOUS multiparadigmaticity, I think Oz may be best -- <http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/book.html> (the book's authors critique the vagueness of the "paradigm" concept, and prefer "model", but that's much the same thing). You start with pure declarative programming (aka "functional" in many circles), move on to concurrency in a purely declarative worldview (easiest way to see concurrency), then enrich both sequential and concurrent models as the book progresses, by message-passing, explicit state ("procedural"), object-oriented, _shared_ state, and finally relational. GUI, distributed, and constraint-based programming round out a grandiose conceptual tour. "SICP for the 21st Century"...? (SICP: google for it!). I currently think so, though, studying CTMCP (the Oz book) in my spare time, it will take me a while before I've finished it and can fairly offer such a lofty recommendation for it... still, I notice from the back-page blurbs that Peter Norvig has no reservations drawing a parallel with SICP (aka Abelson and Sussman), and Norvig's assessment must count for more than mine! Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
