What is difference between functional and imperative programming languages?

Question

Most of the mainstream languages, including object-oriented programming (OOP) languages such as C#, Visual Basic, C++, and Java were designed to primarily support imperative

Answer 1

I know this question is older and others already explained it well, I would like to give an example problem which explains the same in simple terms.

Problem: Writing the 1's table.

Solution: -

By Imperative style: =>

    1*1=1
    1*2=2
    1*3=3
    .
    .
    .
    1*n=n 

By Functional style: =>

    1
    2
    3
    .
    .
    .
    n

Explanation in Imperative style we write the instructions more explicitly and which can be called as in more simplified manner.

Where as in Functional style, things which are self-explanatory will be ignored.