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What's The Difference Between Imperative, Procedural and Structured Programming?

By researching around (books, Wikipedia, similar questions on SE, etc) I came to understand that Imperative programming is one of the major programming paradigms, where you describe a series of ...
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Why was GOTO included in PHP 5? [closed]

I discovered some time ago that the GOTO control keyword was introduced in PHP 5.3.0. http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.goto.php Why did it happen? What are the language design goals ...
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Lua and multi-paradigm programming: scope and capabilities

Despite having started learning programming with Pascal and C, after the jump to OO (C++, Java) I lost sense of the structured programming paradigm. I have started learning Lua and I have researched ...
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Roadblock-confused about structure of program

I'm new to programming, and I'm working in C. I know that this is structured programming but if I use blocks, say for local variables: { int i; for(i=0; i<25; i++){ printf("testing...\n"); ...