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imperative language
noun
Any programming language that consists (mostly) of a series of commands, typically assigning values to objects; a procedural language.
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BPMN is mainly an imperative language.
Because the system is implemented in an imperative language, the production rules are statically ordered.
It is a C-like imperative language extended with concurrency, inter-process communication, and exceptions.
CAO is a domain-specific imperative language for cryptography, offering a rich mathematical type system and crypto-oriented language constructions.
It is an imperative language with a syntax similar to C. Special constructs are provided to allow the straightforward expression of timing properties.
These tools allow visual entry of structure and topology of the system, whereas dynamic behaviour of individual processes is expressed in an expressive imperative language.
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These allow the convenient use of this computational paradigm in commonly used imperative languages.
Although few papers review programming languages of dataflow architectures, their discussions are limited to only dataflow languages and visual programming languages which are fundamentally different from imperative languages.
There are two dominant paradigms in programming, functional and imperative, and learning a functional language will complement the imperative languages you learned in CS 1110 and CS 2110.
What Java and C# share in common with distant ancestors such as Fortran and Algol is that they are "imperative languages".
There are several important languages and notations for representing purely sequential behavior, for example, sequential algorithms, imperative languages such as C and Pascal, and state machines.
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