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Paradigm Blindness: The Mortal Disease of Certainty

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  1. Paradigm blindnessprogramming paradigms Module 01.3COP4020 – Programming Language Concepts Dr. Manuel E. Bermudez

  2. The mortal disease of certainty. Paradigmsact as physiologicalfilters; a coloredfilterbeforetheeyes. The rules forthe new paradigm are oftencompletelyINVISIBLE to thosestillsubscribing to theoldparadigm. ParadigmBlindness

  3. Example: In the late 1930’s, Chester Carlsonshowed Kodak, IBM and 41 othercompanieshis new “photographicsystem”: a steelplate, someblackpowder, a piece of catfur, a piece of amber, somewaxpaper, and aniron. OnlytheHalloidCorporationadoptedthe new system. Theylaterbecame ??? ParadigmBlindness (cont’d)

  4. Example: Whoinventedthequartzwatch ? Characteristics of paradigmblindness: “That’snotthewaywe do it.” “Itisnotgoing to work.” “That’simpossible.” “Ifyouhadmyyears of experience, youwouldknowyou are wrong.” ParadigmBlindness (cont’d)

  5. Examples: ParadigmBlindness (cont’d)

  6. FOUR PARADIGMS OF COMPUTING Imperative: WHAT DO WE DO NEXT ? Object-Oriented: WHAT ARE THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT ? Functional: WHAT IS THE FUNCTION’S VALUE ? Logic: WHEN IS IT TRUE THAT … ? Programming (Language) Paradigms

  7. summary • Paradigm blindness: • New rules become invisible. • Examples everywhere. • Four Programming Paradigms: • Imperative. • Object-oriented. • Functional. • Logic.

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