| LC control no. | sh2009011030 |
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| Topical heading | Imperative programming |
| See also | Computer programming |
| Found in | Work cat.: Collard, J.-F. Reasoning about program transformations : imperative programming and flow of data, 2003. O'Regan, G. A brief history of computing, 2008: p. 77 (Imperative programming; a programming style that describes computation in terms of a program state, and statements that change the program state; Imperative programming consists of a set of commands to be executed on the computer, and is therefore concerned with how the program will be executed; the execution of an imperative command generally results in a change of state) Wikipedia, Dec. 22, 2009 (Imperative programming; in computer science, imperative programming is a programming paradigm that describes computation in terms of statements that change a program state. In much the same way that imperative mood in natural languages expresses commands to take action, imperative programs define sequences of commands for the computer to perform) |
| Not found in | FOLDOC, Dec. 22, 2009; Dictionary of computing, 1996; Encyclopedia of computer science, 2000; Webopedia, Dec. 22, 2009. |
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