Wikipedia disagrees with you: > “Procedural programming is a programming paradigm, derived from structured programming, based upon the concept of the procedure

Wikipedia disagrees with you: > “Procedural programming is a programming paradigm, derived from structured programming, based upon the concept of the procedure call. Procedures, also known as routines, subroutines [emphasis mine], or functions (...)” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_programming] Procedural programming is all about decomposing programs (descriptions of tasks) into subroutines (descriptions of subtasks). Maybe you were thinking about imperative programming instead? Procedural programs are certainly imperative, but not all imperative programs are procedural.