procedrbased

Procedrbased is a term that may be encountered in discussions of software development, but it is not widely standardized in literature. It is generally taken to refer to a procedural-based approach or to procedural programming, where emphasis is placed on procedures or subroutines rather than on objects.

Procedural programming is a programming paradigm in which the program is built from a collection of procedures, functions, or subroutines that operate on data. Programs describe a sequence of steps to perform tasks, with control flow directed by conditionals and loops. Data and procedures interact primarily through parameter passing and shared state.

Key characteristics of procedural-based programming include modular routines, top-down design, explicit control flow, and data structures passed between procedures. State is often shared or updated by procedures through parameters or global data. Reuse is achieved by extracting common tasks into separate procedures and composing them to form larger operations.

Procedural-based programming contrasts with object-oriented programming, which organizes code around objects and their interactions, and with functional programming, which emphasizes pure functions and immutable data. In practice, many languages support multiple styles, and projects may mix procedural code with object-oriented or functional components depending on goals and constraints.

History and usage: procedural programming was dominant in languages such as C, Pascal, and early BASIC. It remains prevalent in system software, scripting, and educational contexts. Its simplicity can aid understanding and performance, but large codebases require careful modularization and disciplined design to avoid maintenance challenges and tangled global state.

See also: procedural programming, imperative programming, structured programming.