Revision as of 11:22, 13 August 2011 edit Your Lord and Master (talk \| contribs) Rollbackers 5,748 edits Undid revision 368622923 by 199.36.12.92 (talk) missed one ← Previous edit		Revision as of 18:54, 14 October 2012 edit undo Borkfisch (talk \| contribs) 77 edits Remove spurious reference to VB and Java as examples, and provided links to articles explaining the different styles of programming language. Next edit →
Line 1: '''NPL''' (for '''NonProcedural Language''') was a [[relational database]] language developed by T.D. Truitt et al.<ref name="Truitt83">"An Introduction to Nonprocedural Languages Using NPL", T.D. Truitt et al., McGraw-Hill 1983.''</ref><ref name="Truitt87">Truitt, T. D. "NPL: the nonprogrammer's data base language" Computer Language 4(06) June 1987 pp97-103</ref> in 1980 for [[Apple II]] and [[MS-DOS]]. In general, a non-procedural language (also called a [[Declarative_programming\|declarative]] language) requires the programmer to specify ''what'' the program should do, rather than (as with a [[Procedural_language\|procedural language]]) providing the sequential steps indicating ''how'' the program should perform its task(s). Modern languages such as Visual Basic or Java are called non-procedural or event-driven, languages because instead of writing a series of sequential instructions, a programmer defines the actions that the program must perform when certain events occur. ==Notes and references==

Nonprocedural language: Difference between revisions