Understanding Programming Paradigms: Procedural, Object-Oriented, and Functional

Most of my readers are probably familiar with procedural programming, object-oriented programming (OOP), and functional programming (FP).

Even if a programmer avoided one or more of those three paradigms like the plague, they’re likely at least aware of them and what they’re about.

Or they’re applying one of the paradigms while denying that they’re doing so, like Haskell programmers using the IO or State Monads (procedural programming), or C programmers writing struc