Question

What are the drawbacks of procedural languages?

Answer 1

The main drawback is that there is not likely support in the language to provide a structure or abstraction for code organization and decomposition. We an OO language you get that in the form of Classes, objects, inheritance, and polymorphism.

You can go all this in a procedural language, but you need to design the structure and be disciplined enough to stick with it. Furthermore, you need to teach new recruits your specific system.