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> Master at least one multi-paradigm language ... Some good candidates are C#, C++, Java, PHP, Python, and Ruby.

They all look imperative to me, what happened to multi-paradigm?

Whilst I can't speak for the others, C# has some interesting facets which most other languages do not. For example first-class functions and lambdas, LINQ, type inference. It also has some nice syntactical sugar like the coalesce operator.

Would not for example C# or C++ count as multi paradigm as it can be considered to support both imperative and object oriented programming?

OO is a subset of imperative.

Can you name me an OO language which doesn't support imperative programming?

Smalltalk is pretty damn functional, actually.

J

C# and C++ counts are part functional.

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