Programming Paradigm
If the control tables technique could be said to belong to any particular programming paradigm, the closest analogy might be Automata-based programming or "reflective" (a form of metaprogramming - since the table entries could be said to 'modify' the behaviour of the interpreter). The interpreter itself however, and the subroutines, can be programmed using any one of the available paradigms or even a mixture. The table itself can be essentially a collection of "raw data" values that do not even need to be compiled and could be read in from an external source (except in specific, platform dependent, implementations using memory pointers directly for greater efficiency).
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