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Pure functions. The ideal in functional programming is what is known as pure functions.A pure function is one whose results are dependent only upon the input parameters, and whose operation ...

The Idea Behind Object Oriented Programming. It’s perhaps best to think of OOP as a design philosophy. With procedural languages there was no connection, no relationship between the data being ...

FORTRAN (short for Formula Translation) is the world’s first high-level procedural programming language, created at IBM in the 1950s. It revolutionized coding by making it accessible to scientists and ...

Categorizing Programming Languages (source: ACM) Here are some related statements on that issue, culled from the report (noting that the researchers lumped object-oriented languages among procedural ...