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The main families of programming languages are:
 
Imperative
Algol-60, Algol-68, Basic, C, Cobol, Fortran, Pascal, Turing, ...
Declarative
Functional
Haskell, Miranda, SML (arguably), ...
Logic
Prolog
Object Oriented
C++, Java, ...
It happens that most OO languages are imperative, and object tends to imply state, but there are functional OO languages such is OCAML

But it is rarely completely clean and simple, for example, Algol-68 is expression-based with functional features, Prolog systems often have non-declarative "features", and SML has assignable (:=, ref) variables.

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