Toward Functionality Oriented Programming

TL;DR

The paper introduces functionality oriented programming, emphasizing implementation independence, unified documentation, cross-module and cross-language integration, supported by a prototype example.

Contribution

It proposes a new programming paradigm focusing on functionality, with specific design principles and a prototype demonstrating its feasibility.

Findings

Implementation independent basic types and collections

Unified documentation and code structure

Cross-language program making scheme

Abstract

The concept of functionality oriented programming is proposed, and some of its aspects are discussed, such as: (1) implementation independent basic types and generic collection types; (2) syntax requirements and recommendations for implementation independence; (3) unified documentation and code; (4) cross-module interface; and (5) cross-language program making scheme. A prototype example is given to demonstrate functionality oriented programming.