>imperative languages are based on the idea of a turing machine In what way? I wouldn't count executing sequential instructions as a "the idea of a turing mach

>imperative languages are based on the idea of a turing machine In what way? I wouldn't count executing sequential instructions as a "the idea of a turing machine", and no major imperative language has programs which have only finitely many states along with an infinite memory space that is both code and data.