[Haskell-cafe] Wikipedia on first-class object

[Derek Elkins]

On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 17:54 -0600, Jonathan Cast wrote:

> Programming languages are generally classified into three groups,  
> imperative, functional, and logical.  The difference is in the style  
> of programming encouraged (or mandated, for older languages) by the  
> language.

Usually the divide is imperative v. declarative with the four major
paradigms (procedural, OO and logic, FP respectively) being subgroups of
those divisions.