A multiparadigm language approach to teaching principles of programming languages

This paper describes the authors´ experiences in using the multiparadigm language GED to teach the principles of a programming languages course. The benefits of using a multiparadigm language include less time spent on learning new environments for different languages, easier transition to different paradigms, and opportunities for multiparadigm programming. In this paper, they give a brief description of GED (which supports the imperative, functional, logic and object-oriented paradigms), describe how it is used in their course, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this approach versus the traditional use of several languages.