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The middle of the road option in a language like Clojure is almost always functional with a small amount of mutable state. Programming styles are just that, st

• heresie-dabord 2y ago
  Language and "style" can be hard to disassociate, though. Unless that kind of flexibility is part of the design ethos of the language. The word "style" generally means a superficial characteristic of appearance, but "style" in a discussion of programming languages could mean the appearance of the language, the loop/state paradigm, or the design ethos of the language itself. For example, the design ethos of Java is entirely bound to OOP. Python on the other hand has a celebrated syntactic style, an OOP foundation, and a flexible loop/state paradigm. Python has flaws, of course. But its development community has paid attention to syntactic style and to the loop/state paradigm. Java became a successful corporate language; Python entered the corporation because it has become a popular language.