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In this chapter, we have a look at a programming style that is quite different from the style that we have seen before. Previously, we wrote programs that operate on variables; one of the basic operations is the assignment statement, which causes the value of an expression to be stored in a variable. It is the only statement that changes the state spanned by the variables. This programming style is called imperative programming.
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van de Snepscheut, J.L.A. (1993). Functional Programming. In: What Computing Is All About. Text and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2710-6_10
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