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PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE [2 records]

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Record 1 - external organization data 2006-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information Technology Vocabulary
Universal entry(ies)
07.01.18 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

programming language that provides the means to state what is to be achieved by the actions of a data processing system by giving specific statements or instructions to be executed in a specific sequence

OBS

Examples: Ada, BASIC, COBOL, Fortran, and Pascal.

OBS

procedural language; procedure-oriented language: terms and definition standardized by ISO/IEC [ISO/IEC 2382-7:2000].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir - ISO/CEI JTC 1 Vocabulaire des technologies de l'information
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
07.01.18 (2382)
ISO/IEC standard entry number
DEF

langage de programmation qui permet de spécifier ce qu'on attend d'un système informatique en indiquant des instructions particulières, à exécuter dans un ordre particulier

OBS

Exemples : Ada, BASIC, COBOL, Fortran, Pascal.

OBS

langage procédural : terme et définition normalisés par l'ISO/CEI [ISO/IEC 2382-7:2000].

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-09-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Programming Languages
DEF

A programming language that enables a program to be specified by defining a collection of procedures. These procedures may call each other, and are called by the main program (which can itself be regarded as a procedure).

OBS

Ex.: Pascal.

OBS

procedure-oriented language; procedural language: terms standardized by ISO and CSA.

Key term(s)
  • procedural programming language

French

Domaine(s)
  • Langages de programmation
DEF

Langage de programmation qui permet de spécifier ce qu'on attend d'un système de traitement de données en indiquant des instructions particulières, à exécuter dans un ordre particulier.

OBS

Ex. : Pascal.

OBS

langage de procédure; langage procédural : termes normalisés par l'ISO et la CSA.

Key term(s)
  • langage adapté aux procédures
  • langage de programmation procédural

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Lenguaje de programación
DEF

Lenguaje de programación diseñado para facilitar la descripción del procesamiento de datos o procesos de cálculos en términos de pasos de procedimiento o algorítmicos.

CONT

los programadores que escriban en lenguajes de procedimientos tienen que desarrollar un orden adecuado de actos para poder resolver el problema [...] Todos los lenguajes convencionales de programación son lenguajes de procedimientos.

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