Editing Procedural programming (section)

=== Imperative programming ===

Procedural programming is classified as an [[imperative programming]], because it involves direct command of execution.

Procedural is a sub-class of imperative since procedural includes [[Block (programming)|block]] and [[Scope (computer science)|scope]] concepts, whereas imperative describes a more general concept that does not require such features. Procedural languages generally use reserved words that define blocks, such as <code>if</code>, <code>while</code>, and <code>for</code>, to implement [[control flow]], whereas [[non-structured programming|non-structured]] imperative languages (i.e. [[assembly language]]) use [[goto]] and [[branch table]]s for this purpose.