A language deliberately designed to support several programming styles, such as procedural, object-oriented and functional, as equally first-class options rather than favoring one, matching ACM Computing Classification System Language types: Multiparadigm languages. Belongs here: JavaScript, Kotlin, Python and Swift. Does not belong here: a language where one paradigm is clearly primary and others are incidental, filed under that primary paradigm's own subcategory.
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1. Wikipedia: PL/I
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This acronym conflicted with that of the UK's National Physical Laboratory and was replaced briefly by MPPL (MultiPurpose Programming Language) and, in 1965, with PL/I (with a Roman numeral "I").
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