A procedure (or function) is a discreet unit of logic which performs a task give a certain input. After procedural and structured programming came object oriented programming.

Academic researchers have published a study investigating the effect of programming languages on software quality, concluding the issue is hard to quantify but also identifying significant findings, ...

Functional programming and procedural programming often provide different views of the same thing. When I declare a function, such as y = 2x I may think of this as a procedure (sequential process ...

So I have been writing code of one sort or another for over 15 years (mostly Perl) and there is still one thing I don’t get ... what is the advantage of object oriented programming (OOP) over ...

“Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) has been created with one goal in mind -- to manage the complexity of procedural codebases.

In this week’s story, Cobol: Not Dead Yet, I wrote that Cobol is “…a procedural language in an object-oriented world.” The folks at MIcro Focus point out that, technically, this is no ...