Procedural Programming
Procedural-based 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.
| Actually, Perl
Version 4, which is what we discussed yesterday, is a
procedural-based programming language. Perl 5, the newest
version of Perl actually introduces Object-Oriented
capabilities into the Perl universe. After all, everybody
wants to be part of the "in-crowd" |
- In a procedural-based programming
language, a programmer writes out instructions that are
followed by a computer from start to finish.
- For example, a procedural-oriented
program might work like this:
![[image]](Images/procedure_example.gif)
- A more complex procedural-based
program might introduce logical branches such as in the
following example
![[image]](Images/procedure2_example.gif)
- But even in the case of a more
complex logical flow, the main idea remains the same...a
certain set of instructions is followed through from
beginning to end, each step building upon and tied to every
previous step.
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Limitations of Procedural-Oriented Programming
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