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imperative programming

imperative language
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Talking about some of its important features, it's thoroughly object-oriented, dynamically typed and an imperative programming language.
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We describe here an implemented small programming language, called Alma-0, that augments the expressive power of imperative programming by a limited number of features inspired by the logic programming paradigm.
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In this article we describe a programming language, Alma-0, that combines advantages of logic and imperative programming in order to deal in a natural way with algorithmic problems that involve search.
--The proposed extension should be downward compatible with the underlying imperative programming language.
We believe that these postulates make our proposal distinct and substantially simpler from previous proposals that dealt with integration of constructs inspired by declarative programming languages (for example, automatic backtracking) into imperative programming.
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In fact the confusion between these two kinds of parallelism is part of the heritage of several decades of imperative programming. Another aspect of this lack of discrimination is the pervasive use of the sequencing operator";" in imperative programming.
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