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Which programming paradigm and language?

It is essential to pick an appropriate programming paradigm and programming language for the programmatic WWW authoring endeavor

  • Paradigm

    • The functional paradigm seems to be attractive

    • The imperative paradigm does not fit well

    • The object-oriented paradigm may also be attractive

  • Language

    • A language with a simple, uniform, and flexible syntax is to be preferred

    • Rigid and complicated syntactic constructs do not fit well with authoring of natural language texts

    • Lisp is a good choice - but not necessarily the only choice