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	Bona Fide Reviews - Procedural Programming: The Secret behind Spore Article
		If anybody ever runs across this article when doing searches for procedural programming, please understand this article is full of inaccurate and misleading information and you should discard the information presented here and continue your search elsewhere, or feel free to verify my statement through your own research.
		Procedural programming is like Visual Basic using SUBs which is obviously nothing ground-breaking and also results in not-so-amicable "Spaghetti-code".
		But he has mixed in procedural and object orientated programming, indicating he misunderstands things somewhat as procedural generation could be used in both paradigms.
	www.bonafidereviews.com /article.php?id=224 (1560 words)

	eXtropia \| Tutorials \| Introducton to Web Programming \| Procedural Programming
		In the 1970's procedural-based programming was all the rage.
		You should be very familiar with procedural-based programming since we spent all day yesterday going over Perl, which is very much a procedural-based programming language.
		In a procedural-based programming language, a programmer writes out instructions that are followed by a computer from start to finish.
	www.extropia.com /tutorials/java/procedural_programming.html (175 words)

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		Students programming in this paradigm are encouraged to think of the RAM of the machine as holding both programs (procedures) and data.
		Procedural Programming -- Panorama's second programming language is procedural, meaning that scripts (procedures) constructed with it consist of a sequence of commands.
		One of the principal advantages of object-oriented programming techniques over procedural programming techniques is that they enable programmers to create modules that do not need to be changed when a new type of object is added.
	lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/procedural-programming.html (433 words)

	Procedural programming
		Procedural programming is a programming paradigm based upon the concept of the modularity and scope of program code (i.e., the data viewing range of an executable code statement).
		A main procedural program is composed of one or more moduless (also called packagess or unitss), either coded by the same programmer or pre-coded by someone else and provided in a code library.
		Procedural programming should not be confused with the orthogonal concept of imperative programming.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/p/pr/procedural_programming.html (210 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Procedural programming
		Procedural programming is a method (a programming paradigm) of computer programming based upon the concept of the unit and scope (the data viewing range of an executable code statement).
		A procedural program is composed of one or more units or modules--either user coded or provided in a code library; each module is composed of one or more procedures, also called a function, routine, subroutine, or method, depending on programming language.
		Procedural programming offers many benefits over simple sequential programming: Procedural programming code is easier to read and more maintainable; Procedural code is more flexible; Procedural programming allows for the easier practice of good program design.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/pr/Procedural_programming (161 words)

	Procedural programming in TutorGig Encyclopedia
		Procedures, also known as routines, subroutines, methods, or functions (not to be confused with mathematical functions, but similar to those used in functional programming) simply contain a series of computational steps to be carried out.
		Procedural programming is often a better choice than simple sequential or unstructured programming in many situations which involve moderate complexity or which require significant ease of maintainability.
		To be considered a procedural, a programming language should support procedural programming by having an explicit concept of a procedure, and a syntax to define it.
	www.tutorgig.com /ed/Procedural_programming (678 words)

	Why Procedural is the Wrong First Paradigm if OOP is the Goal
		Procedural Programming: Pascal and Modula-2 were designed to fit as well as possible with the procedural paradigm.
		In any case, the lesson to be learned from procedural programming is that the nature of the solution to a problem is that it is a process or a set of actions.
		Good procedural programs can be constructed by OOP programmers because they will naturally partition their programs into object-like units of functionality even though they don’t have the encapsulation tools that they are used to in the OOP world.
	csis.pace.edu /~bergin/papers/Whynotproceduralfirst.html (3961 words)

	Prolog as a Procedural Programming Language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Prolog, as a programming language, is a little unusual.
		One specifies what a procedure is to do by using primitive statements and by invoking other procedures.
		C can be viewed as a procedural language by thinking of using it without functions; i.e., all functions return void, and information is passed to and from functions through their arguments only.
	www.cs.sunysb.edu /~warren/xsbbook/node4.html (125 words)

	Programming Paradigms
		A programming paradigm is a way of conceptualizing what it means to perform computation, of structuring and organizing how tasks are to be carried out on a computer.
		Since procedural languages are not particularly close to the way human solving problems, it is difficult to specifying problems especially when the problem is complicated.
		Procedural programs are hard to maintain and not easy to reuse the code.
	www.cs.iastate.edu /~leavens/ComS541Fall98/hw-pages/paradigms/paradigms.htm (883 words)

	Categorical list of programming languages Summary
		In a procedural programming language, the programmer defines the set of executable instructions and the exact sequence in which those instructions are to be executed.
		Procedural programming languages are based on the concept of the unit and scope (the data viewing range of an executable code statement).
		A procedural program is composed of one or more units or modules, either user coded or provided in a code library; each module is composed of one or more procedures, also called a function, routine, subroutine, or method, depending on the language.
	www.bookrags.com /Categorical_list_of_programming_languages (3665 words)

	What Language Do You Need? Comparing Programming Languages - Cprogramming.com
		These days, programming languages are becoming more and more general and all-purpose, but they still have their specializations, and each language has its disadvantages and advantages.
		Scripting languages are often procedural and may contain elements of object-oriented languages, but they fall into their own category because they are typically not meant to be full-fledged programming languages with support for large system development.
		The take home message is that different programming languages have their advantages and disadvantages, and picking the appropriate language for the task is often an important step in the process of developing an application or program.
	www.cprogramming.com /langs.html (1449 words)

	Procedural or OOP? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Procedural programming involves dividing the program into sub-tasks or functions, and then solving each sub-task separately.
		It is easier to achieve such a strong mathematical base using procedural programming than OOP as procedural programming allow students to think logically, which, in turn, helps to accomplish the goal.
		It is true that they cannot change their style of programming overnight, but if the OO concepts are taught in the correct manner, students can get used to OOP pretty fast.
	web.ics.purdue.edu /~djadhav/page2.htm (976 words)

	ASP Programming Fundamentals
		Procedural Programming was the first kind of programming to develop, and involves a relatively simple way of doing things.
		In procedural programming, the computer is given a set of instructions which it executes, and then waits for input, which it reacts to by executing another set of instructions, and so on.
		In point of fact, procedural programming is at the heart of all programming, including object-oriented, but because certain kinds of objects have many characteristics in common (such as windows, for example), it is more convenient to treat them as objects, rather than as sets of instructions.
	www.takempis.com /aspfundamentals.asp (2132 words)

	Open Directory - Computers: Programming: Languages: Procedural
		Lets you describe a program in terms of graphical elements bound together by your code.
		The cT Programming Language and Environment - An algorithmic language like C, Pascal, Fortran, and Basic, but greatly enhanced by multimedia capabilities, including easy-to-use support for color graphics, mouse interactions, and even movies in QuickTime or Video for Windows format.
		Frink - A programming language and calculating tool.
	dmoz.org /Computers/Programming/Languages/Procedural (540 words)

	Simple Procedural and Block Structured
		Few years later, C was developed and replaced B. Logical programming began in the early 1970's.Prolog originated from work in the early 1970s by Robert A Kowalski of Edinburgh University (now at Imperial College, London) and Alain Colmerauer of the University of Aix-Marseille.
		In addition, more modern practices like data types and structured programming were developing during the 1960s.The language could be compile in one pass, and a recursive descent parsing algorithm was used to develop the initial Pascal compiler.
		This is because procedural programs are an ordered sequence of statements and procedure calls that are sequentially evaluated.
	v.students.umkc.edu /vm63a/441p2p1.htm (1198 words)

	GeekPhilosopher: ASP Programming sequence/selection/iteration,properties,methods,events
		Procedural Programming was the first kind of programming to develop, and involves a relatively simple way of doing things.
		In procedural programming, the computer is given a set of instructions which it executes, and then waits for input, which it reacts to by executing another set of instructions, and so on.
		In point of fact, procedural programming is at the heart of all programming, including obect-oriented, but because certain kinds of objects have many characteristics in common (such as windows, for example), it is more convenient to treat them as objects, rather than as sets of instructions.
	geekphilosopher.com /MainPage/webAspProgramming.htm (2201 words)

	Procedural programming Summary
		Procedural languages are computer languages used to define the actions that a computer has to follow to solve a problem.
		Although it would be convenient for people to give computers instructions in a natural language, such as English, French, or Chinese,...
		Procedural programming is sometimes used as a synonym for imperative programming (specifying the steps the program must take to...
	www.bookrags.com /Procedural_programming (119 words)

	SpoC – a Simple PrOCedural programming language
		One of the basic ideas of imperative languages is that variable names are bound to values, which may be altered later in a program.
		procedure is found, the function parse-proc() is then called to parse the procedure.
		In the function parse-SPoc(), the program name is sent to parse-id(), where the interpreter makes sure that the program name is not a reserved word.
	mathcs.holycross.edu /~mule/manual/chap5.htm (1870 words)

	Procedural < Know < TWiki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A procedural program is written as a list of instructions, telling the computer, step-by-step, what to do: Open a file, read a number, multiply by 4, display something.
		What is more, procedural programming has a built-in way of splitting big lists of instructions into smaller lists: the function.
		Thus, the whole program may need to be examined in order to understand even a small portion of code.
	csci.mrs.umn.edu /UMMCSciWiki/bin/view/Know/Procedural (228 words)

	Procedural Programming Languages
		In order to keep the program small and efficient, these calls are not used in some MS-DOS implementations of C, and the memory space is limited though it is still adequate for most programs.
		The impact of dynamic allocation can be appreciated when programming data storage that occurs at different times in the program, and consequently allowing us to share the same area of memory for all data.
		Thus for example, if you had a program that used several large data storage areas, but not at the same time, you could load one block storing it dynamically, then overwrite the space with the next large block of data.
	eent3.sbu.ac.uk /units/PPL/Sem1Assignment2003.htm (1651 words)

	Programs vs. markup
		This document tries to characterize what computer programs and programming languages are and how they differ from markup, both presentational and logical markup.
		It's hard to tell what is behind this, but calling HTML a programming language might reflect the use of the word "programming" to mean just writing something that will be processed by computers rather than people; after all, we might (reasonably) say that writing HTML is coding.
		A program in the strictest sense of the word, a binary program, is a sequence of machine instructions directly executed by computer hardware.
	www.cs.tut.fi /~jkorpela/prog.html (1990 words)

	Why I Prefer Procedural/Relational
		I generally do not have to do this that often with procedural code, at least not reasonably-well designed code (which may not be the minority, unfortunately).
		OOP attempts to empower programming languages themselves, while p/r tends to farm off key forms of complexity to relational technology, reducing the role of code altogether.
		The procedural paradigm has not died, it has simply found its place as the Yin to the Yang (or is that Yang to the Yin?).
	www.geocities.com /tablizer/whypr.htm (3188 words)

	OOP Criticism
		The inheritance and aggregation model of OOP tends to assume the world can be cleanly modeled as hierarchical classification and/or nested structures, or at least into mutually-exclusive divisions (a flat tree), when in fact this is often not the case.
		Also, many programmers mistakenly use C as representative of procedural languages and are glad to move on to C++, which does offer more power simply because it has more features and vendor tools for it.
		Garbage collection in procedural programming usually comes about by having the end of a routine or end of the program automatically close out the structures and mark the memory as available for other uses.
	geocities.com /tablizer/oopbad.htm (10525 words)

	Procedural Application Programming Interface
		Since all API will eventually reach machine code, saying Java APIs are wrappers around procedural is the same as saying all APIs are wrappers around machine code, or by extension, the "heart" of all programs are machine code.
		Any procedural language can implement OOP just pass an object as a parameter to your methods: method(object, parms) in procedural is the same as object.method(parms) in OOP.
		I didn't say procedural programming couldn't have these features, but they'd be implemented differently, with something like modules.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?ProceduralApplicationProgrammingInterface (1855 words)

	Introducton to Web Programming \| Limitations of Procedural-Oriented Programming
		Unfortunately, there are no great tools for abstraction and modularization in procedural languages...thus, it is hard to add new functionality or change the work flow without going back and modifying all other parts of the program.
		Not only does procedural code have a tendency to be difficult to understand, as it evolves, it becomes even harder to understand, and thus, harder to modify.
		Procedural-oriented programming is actually very powerful, so don't let the hype make you think that it has no place in your arsenal of programming tools.
	senior.billings.k12.mt.us /selena/procedural_programming_limits.html (480 words)

	Functional vs. Procedural Programming Language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It has only a few of the basic functional programming constructs that characterize a functional language and its pattern-matching capabilities are very limited.
		Functional programming is particularly useful for mathematical work, where the notion of ``function'' is already a well established concept.
		Mathematica is, in essence, a functional programming language that is implemented as a term rewriting system with very extensive pattern-matching capabilities; one can program in Mathematica using the procedural style of programming (e.g., using Do loops) but it is definitely preferable to adopt the functional or rule-based style.
	amath.colorado.edu /computing/mmm/funcproc.html (579 words)

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