langage de programmation impératif

Domaines: informatiquelangage de programmation informatique

intelligence artificielle
Auteur: Office québécois de la langue française
Dernière mise à jour: 1995

Terme privilégié :

langage de programmation impératif n. m.

Traductions

anglais
Auteur : Office québécois de la langue française, 1995
Définition

An imperative programming language is one which contains imperative commands to a machine to perform various operations.

Note :

It can be contracted to a "declarative" language, in which a program is seen as a number of declaratively true statements, and an applicative language, in which a program is seen as a "function" to be applied to "arguments". The more common imperative programming languages are: Pascal, ALGOL, BASIC, COBOL and FORTRAN.

Terme :
1. imperative programming language