procedural language

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procedural language - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  procedural language
  
     <language> Any programming language in which the programmer
     specifies an explicit sequences of steps to follow to produce
     a result.
  
     The term should not be confused with "imperative language".
     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 these types of language are in contrast to declarative languages
     , in which the programmer specifies neither explicit
     sequences of actions nor internal state manipulation.
  
     (2004-05-17)