What is the difference between procedural and structural language?
Programming language? In short – procedural languages view problem solutions as “what steps do I take to solve this problem?” They tend to be monolithic. It’s the approach pretty much everyone takes when they first start to program, but it’s an approach that doesn’t lend itself to complex programs nor to multiple programmers working on the same problem. Structured languages break things down a bit more. They view problem solutions as a set of tasks, each of which is necessary to the problem solution. The program is then written as solutions to each of the tasks, and those solutions are put together to make the final program. It lends itself to more complicated programs because no one has to keep the entire program in his/her head all at once, and it allows for multiple programmers to work on it at once, each on an individual task. Pascal was the “teaching language” for structured programming.
