The " < = " operator in Verilog is another aspect of its being a hardware description language as opposed to a normal procedural language.
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Top-down is a programming style, the mainstay of traditional procedural languages, in which design begins by specifying complex pieces and then dividing them into successively smaller pieces.
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Although initially designed as a procedural language, starting with version 10.1 it was enhanced with object-oriented grammar elements, which can be mixed with the original procedural style.
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For example, a procedural language may anticipate adding object-oriented capabilities in a future version or some dialect, at which point one might add keywords like class or object.
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The XBLite syntax is very similar to that of XBasic and somewhat similar to Microsoft's QuickBASIC in that it is a procedural language capable of subs and functions.
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All the business logic resides in the procedural language of the open source database PostgreSQL, allowing for a variety of client interfaces and scalability unbound by client-side limitations.
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Earl Sacerdoti and Rene Reboh developed QLISP, an extension of QA4 embedded in INTERLISP, providing Planner-like reasoning embedded in a procedural language and developed in its rich programming environment.
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"' SQL / PSM "'( SQL / Persistent Stored Modules ) is an ISO standard mainly defining an extension of SQL with a procedural language for use in stored procedures.
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On the other hand, many actions defined in HDL program statements can run in parallel ( somewhat similar to threads and tasklets in procedural languages, but much more fine-grained ).
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Unlike many procedural languages, and even many scripting languages, HyperTalk proved to be far more accessible to a wide range of users, partly because scripts were more or less readable as English.
