[phizy]

You can do better, then. Read nendroids latest reply to me, and help them understand that it's the "use of statements" that makes a language imperative, not the "modification of state."

I won't be responding, and they seem to think they're quite the expert in this sort of thing.

[nendroid]

"In computer science, imperative programming is a programming paradigm that uses statements that change a program's state."

The above quote is ripped straight out of wikipedia's definition of imperative programming showing that what I said wasn't a misunderstanding but an official definition.

The definition of imperative programming must include mutation otherwise it's isomorphic to functional programming. Because functional programming is simply statements without mutation.