<div dir="ltr">you know.... I read the article. Then I reread it. Then the first paragraph caught my attention... but it still didn't make any sense. Then I remembered that a lot of the time if you take out the extra words it then it might.<div>--<span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">Procedures, also known as routines, </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subroutine" title="Subroutine" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26.3999996185303px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">subroutines</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">, methods, or functions (not to be confused with mathematical functions, but similar to those used in </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming" title="Functional programming" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26.3999996185303px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">functional programming</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">), simply contain a series of computational steps to be carried out. Any given procedure might be called at any point during a program's execution, including by other procedures or itself. Procedural programming is a list or set of instructions telling a computer what to do step by step and how to perform from the first code to the second code. </span></div><div>--</div><div>turned into:</div><div><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">Procedures, also known as routines, </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subroutine" title="Subroutine" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:26.3999996185303px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(90,54,150);background-image:none;background-repeat:initial">subroutines</a><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">, methods, or functions </span><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',Arial,'Liberation Sans',sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:26.3999996185303px">simply contain a series of computational steps to be carried out. Any given procedure might be called at any point during a program's execution, including by other procedures or itself. Procedural programming is a list or set of instructions telling a computer what to do step by step and how to perform from the first code to the second code. </span><br></div><div><br></div><div>And I got it</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">:-)~MIKE~(-:</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 8:03 PM, Mark Phillips <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@phillipsmarketing.biz" target="_blank">mark@phillipsmarketing.biz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr"><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_programming" target="_blank">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_programming</a></p>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mar 3, 2015 7:44 PM, "Michael Havens" <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">According to <a href="http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-bash2/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-bash2/index.html</a> Python is a procedural language as well.<div><h2 style="margin:5px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light,'Helvetica Neue Light','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="1"><i style="font-weight:normal">Bash programming constructs</i><br></font></h2><p style="margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:6px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.5em;margin-top:5px!important"><i><font size="1">If you've programmed in a procedural language like C, Pascal, Python, or Perl, then you're familiar with standard programming constructs like "if" statements, "for" loops, and the like. </font></i></p><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div>What does it mean to be a procedural language?</div><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Keith Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" target="_blank">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
C is procedural, which is easier to learn. C++ is object oriented. Java is object oriented. I have not looked at Python so I cannot comment. PHP is object oriented, however most use it for scripting (old school PHP).<br><div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div>
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