procedural - definition, synonyms and pronunciation

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of or relating to procedure“a procedural violation”Relating to procedure
relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law“adjective law”Synonyms: adjective

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procedural language procedural

<language> Any programming language in which the programmer specifies an explicit sequences of steps to follow to produce a result (an algorithm).

The term should not be confused with "imperative language" - a language that specifies explicit manipulation of state. An example (non-imperative) procedural language is LOGO, which specifies sequences of steps to perform but does not have an internal state.

Other procedural languages include Basic, Pascal, C, and Modula-2.

Both procedural and imperative languages are in contrast to declarative languages, in which the programmer specifies neither explicit steps nor explicit state manipulation.

(2004-05-17)