  Programming languages development has intensified in recent years. New ones
are created; new features, often cross-paradigm, are featured in old ones. This
new programming landscape makes language selection a more complex decision,
both from the companies points of view (technical, recruiting) and from the
developers point of view (career development). In this paper, however, we argue
that programming languages have a secondary role in software development design
decisions. We illustrate, based on a practical example, how the main influencer
are higher-level traits: those traditionally assigned with programming
paradigms. Following this renovated perspective, concerns about language choice
are shifted for all parties. Beyond particular syntax, grammar, execution model
or code organization, the main consequence of the predominance of one paradigm
or another in the mind of the developer is the way solutions are designed.
