The following table compares general and technical information for a selection of commonly used programming languages. See the individual languages‘ articles for further information. Please note that the following table may be missing some information.
| Language | Intended use | Imperative | Object-oriented | Functional | Procedural | Generic | Reflective | Event-driven | Other paradigm(s) | Standardized? |
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| ActionScript 3.0 | Application, client-side, web | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 1996, ECMA | ||||
| Ada | Application, embedded, realtime, system | Yes | Yes[2] | Yes[3] | Yes[4] | concurrent,[5] distributed,[6] | 1983, 2005, 2012, ANSI, ISO, GOST 2783 |
| C | Application, system,[11] general purpose, low-level operations | Yes | Yes | 1989, ANSI C89, ISO C90, ISO C99, ISO C11[12] | ||||||
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| C# | Application, RAD, business, client-side, general, server-side, web | Yes | Yes | Yes[14] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | structured, concurrent | 2000, ECMA, ISO[15] |
| C++ | Application, system | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 1998, ISO/IEC 1998, ISO/IEC 2003, ISO/IEC 2011,ISO/IEC 2014[13] |
| Java | Application, business, client-side, general, mobile development, server-side, web | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | concurrent | De facto standard via Java Language Specification |
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| JavaScript | Client-side, server-side, web | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | prototype-based | 1997, ECMA |
| Objective-C | Application, general | Yes | Yes | Yes | concurrent | No |
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| Python | Application, general, web, scripting, artificial intelligence, scientific computing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | aspect-oriented | "De facto" standard via Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) |
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| Go | Application, web, server-side | Yes | Yes[22] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | concurrent | De facto standard via Go Language Specification |
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