From: Mike Stephens <rubfor@...>
Date: 2009-03-06T07:42:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby - Imperative Language Features?

Robert Klemme wrote:
  "imperative" in this context just means
> that you explicitly state which operations have to be executed in order.

Good point. I'd taken imperative to mean procedural, and you're right - 
it actually is starting off on another tack: imperative vs functional 
(or declaritive).

I'm interested in this angle because I'm worried people learn OO and 
miss the many simple tricks of old-fashioned programming. I've inherited 
a multi-million .NET development that has a central C# 'module' of 8000 
lines. Every minor change creates 5 side-effect defects. It's a 
nightmare and I wonder whether it wouldn't have been so much better if 
written in the 1970s style of modular/structured procedural programming.

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