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paradigm
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paradigm	has definition An approach to software design and programming
	is a subtopic of 2.1 - What is Object Orientation?
	is a kind of subject

Kinds of paradigm :

• object orientation (3 facts) - A near-synonym for the object-oriented paradigm
• object-oriented paradigm (7 facts) - An approach to software design and programming in which software is primarily thought of as a collection of classes that each have responsibilities for various operations, and which are instantiated at run time to create objects
• procedural paradigm (8 facts) - An approach to software design and programming in which software is primarily thought of as a hierarchy of procedures - the root of the hierarchy is typically a main procedure, which calls other procedures, etc. (in contrast to the object-oriented paradigm)