Paradigm wars Memes

The programming paradigm hierarchy in its natural habitat! Data-oriented folks stand tall and proud at the top of the food chain. Object-oriented programmers cling desperately to the middle ground, while those return-oriented programmers... well, they're basically just lurking in the shadows waiting to exploit buffer overflows and hijack execution flow. The secret fourth paradigm not pictured: functional programmers who are too busy explaining monads to fit in the frame.

The programming paradigm hierarchy in its natural habitat. Object-oriented programmers confidently standing tall, data-oriented programmers clinging to them for support, and return-oriented programmers... well, they've fallen into the bucket and can't get out. Classic case of function returning to the wrong address space. That rabbit's not coming back with a value anytime soon.