The ACM Computing Classification System (1998)

D.3.2 Language Classifications

• Applicative (functional) languages 
• Concurrent, distributed, and parallel languages
• Constraint and logic languages 
• Data-flow languages
• Design languages
• Extensible languages
• Macro and assembly languages
• Microprogramming languages [**]
• Multiparadigm languages 
• Nondeterministic languages [**]
• Nonprocedural languages [**]
• Object-oriented languages
• Specialized application languages
• Very high-level languages