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What is a drawback of the traditional procedural approach to programming?
What is a drawback of the traditional procedural approach to programming?
- Lack of logical and all-powerful procedures
- Difficulty in maintaining large procedural cores (correct)
- Ease of remembering how the whole thing works
- Inability to handle complex data representations
Why does the text criticize the traditional programming model?
Why does the text criticize the traditional programming model?
- Ease of understanding complex and unintended interactions
- Programmers' limited capacity to remember all details (correct)
- Inability to handle inert and passive data
- Logical and all-powerful procedural body
What becomes more likely as the procedural core grows larger?
What becomes more likely as the procedural core grows larger?
- Clear understanding of the whole program
- Decrease in complex and unintended interactions
- Minor lapses of thinking and typographical errors (correct)
- Reduction in the need for maintaining the core
What is a characteristic of data under the traditional programming model?
What is a characteristic of data under the traditional programming model?
Why does maintaining the procedural core become difficult as the project grows?
Why does maintaining the procedural core become difficult as the project grows?
What is a drawback of the traditional procedural approach to programming?
What is a drawback of the traditional procedural approach to programming?
What is the nature of data under the traditional programming model?
What is the nature of data under the traditional programming model?
Why do minor lapses of thinking and typographical errors become more likely as the procedural core grows larger?
Why do minor lapses of thinking and typographical errors become more likely as the procedural core grows larger?
What happens to complex and unintended interactions within the procedural core as the project grows larger?
What happens to complex and unintended interactions within the procedural core as the project grows larger?
What is the problem with the traditional approach to programming according to the text?
What is the problem with the traditional approach to programming according to the text?
