4.2 POPULAR RECENT PARADIGMS
They are procedural programming and object-oriented programming paradigms. Let us have a look at both of them.
4.2.1 Procedural programming
Before the advent of object-oriented technology, the general purpose programming languages were procedure oriented. The common popular languages were PASCAL and C. The base of procedure-oriented programming was “imperative”. At this stage, we assume that this paradigm (procedural) encompasses both structural and modular paradigms.
Some of the main features of procedural programming are:
- Writing instructions to perform tasks.
- Modularity achieved through functions.
- Use of flowcharts.
- Data is global
- Design strategy top–down
Here emphasis was based on functions to introduce modularity. ...
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