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A procedural language is a programming language in which everything is processed in the order it appears to the computer. In contrast, an object-oriented language is a language in which everything is processed depending on what happens in the program -- user input, errors, or other events.
A programming language is a notation designed to connect instructions to a machine or a computer. Programming languages are mainly used to control the performance of a machine or to express algorithms. At present, thousand programming languages have been implemented.