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:: The list is suppose to give the reader some popular examples of programs written using procedural programming. Most of the software listed is available as open source. This way the reader can see some examples of programs written using the procedural programming style. Yes, this whole list is an advertisement for procedural programming! Yes, the reader can actually see some GOOD examples of procedural programs that have actually worked in the real world -despite some false reasonings by some in the OOP community that procedural programming leads to unproductive spaghetti code. --[[Special:Contributions/76.25.205.169|76.25.205.169]] ([[User talk:76.25.205.169|talk]]) 21:50, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
== Comparison with object-oriented programming ==
The table in the comparison with object-oriented programming section describes the difference in idioms between pure OO and pure procedural programming, not the difference in features, as both have functions, both have variables, and so forth. In OOP a message is information sent to a method, just as in PP, an argument is information sent to a function. Therefore the proper mate for "message" under the OO paradigm in this table is "argument." A "function call" is not information sent to a function, but rather the instantiation of the function itself, much as an object is not a class, but an instantiation of the class itself.
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