The Evolution of Imperative Programming Paradigms as a Search for New Ways to Reduce Code Duplication

Abstract

The cause for imperative programming paradigm shift is the impossibility of developing software systems of a new level of complexity. We consider the evolution of programming paradigms: structured, procedural, and object-oriented. We demonstrate new ways of code duplication reducing have appeared with the shift of paradigm. We conclude the factor of code duplication reducing determines the direction of programming paradigm evolution. We discover the constraints, which were introduced in the paradigms, simplify the development of software systems. We conclude the new constraints allow the development of more complex software systems. The main reason for the code duplication is the low qualification of programmers. Therefore, in the process of learning programming, one should pay attention to code duplication and ways to reduce it.