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procedural paradigm has definition An approach to software design and programming in which software is primarily thought of as a hierarchy of procedures - the root of the hierarchy is typically a main procedure, which calls other procedures, etc. (in contrast to the object-oriented paradigm) 2001-08-30 14:57:04.0
hides many of the details of computations
is a subtopic of 2.1 - What is Object Orientation?
is a kind of paradigm
organizes code into procedures that each manipulate different types of data
provides procedural abstraction
works badly if the program's purpose is to perform calculations on complex data 2001-08-30 14:57:04.0
works well if the program's purpose is to perform complex calculations with relatively simple data

procedural paradigm	has definition An approach to software design and programming in which software is primarily thought of as a hierarchy of procedures - the root of the hierarchy is typically a main procedure, which calls other procedures, etc. (in contrast to the object-oriented paradigm)
	hides many of the details of computations
	is a subtopic of 2.1 - What is Object Orientation?
	is a kind of paradigm
	organizes code into procedures that each manipulate different types of data
	provides procedural abstraction
	works badly if the program's purpose is to perform calculations on complex data
	works well if the program's purpose is to perform complex calculations with relatively simple data