Dialecting

Programming paradigms
Agent-oriented Automata-based Component-based Flow-based Pipelined Concatenative Concurrent computing Relativistic programming Data-driven Declarative (contrast: Imperative) Constraint Dataflow Cell-oriented (spreadsheets) Reactive Logic Abductive logic Answer set Constraint logic Functional logic Inductive logic Event-driven Service-oriented Time-driven Expression-oriented Feature-oriented Function-level (contrast: Value-level) Functional Generic Imperative (contrast: Declarative) Procedural Language-oriented Discipline-specific Domain-specific Grammar-oriented Dialecting Intentional Metaprogramming Automatic Reflective Attribute-oriented Template Policy-based Non-structured (contrast: Structured) Array Nondeterministic Parallel computing Process-oriented Programming in the large / small Semantic Structured (contrast: Non-structured) Modular (contrast: Monolithic) Object-oriented By separation of concerns: Aspect-oriented Role-oriented Subject-oriented Class-based Prototype-based Recursive Value-level (contrast: Function-level)
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Dialects are domain specific sub-languages of a programming language or a data exchange language. (See also Grammar-oriented programming, Language oriented programming, Reflection and Metaprogramming.) A language supporting this paradigm encourages users to create new dialects for specific problematic domains.

Languages

• FORTH
• LISP
• REBOL
• Ruby
• XL

See also

• Domain-specific language
• Domain-specific modelling
• Modeling language
• Language oriented programming