Summary: There are certainly many of them and as enterprise architects we need to limit their use so what are the drivers to find the right one for your organisation:. There are many programming paradigm that can be done by the same programming language so I will concentrate here on aspects of separation rather than of programming features such as recursion versus iterative or 4GL versus 5GL There are a few categories where it will not be a either ... or, these are: Declarative (includes functional) Imperative Data-oriented Then there the questions to eliminate some such as: Existing resource pool Investment up to date Strategic decisions
