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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.
An interpreted language is one where the instructions are not directly executed by the target machine, but instead read and executed by some other program (which normally is written in the language of the native machine).