Is there any connection between imperative programming and the Von Neumann architecture? I have ran into a wall with this question in the exercise my teacher gave me, is there any actual connetion between the Von Neumann architecture and imperative programming ?

I have tried googling and finding questions similar to this, but I couldn't find anything, and the one question that I have found actually said that there shouldn't be any connection between the Von Neumann architecture and programming paradigms.

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von Neumann architecture is memory for data and instructions and a CPU that fetches and executes instructions one after the other. That is intrinsecally imperative. Compare with functional programming (define functions that call among themselves) or logic programming (search for a solution  to a set of logic statements). Other paradigms like OOP are more or less orthogonal to the above.