A programming paradigm is a fundamental style of computer programming. There are four main paradigms: object-oriented, imperative, functional and logic programming. Their foundations are distinct models of computation: Turing machine for object-oriented and imperative programming, lambda calculus for functional programming, and first order logic for logic programming.
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