Declarative programming languages have higher levels of expressionand abstraction than most other programming paradigms. Not only does declarative programming reduce source code — it also prevents ...

The Cascalog system has combined the Cascading system for abstraction of advanced data processing on Hadoop and other systems, the Datalog declarative programming language that is well suited for ...

A new model of declarative programming languages has emerged for building infrastructure as code, promising more simplicity and safety than imperative languages. In the last dozen years or so ...

A handful of Microsoft's top developers are working to create the new programming language, codenamed "D." Sources who wish to be remain anonymous described D as a declarative language aimed at ...

There’s an interesting (and somewhat long) read over on eWeek.com for those of you that get a little moist about declarative programming languages. Microsoft’s “Oslo” strategy, announced ...

about what the new data operation he calls declarative programming. “You’re telling the system what you want to do, but not necessarily how to do it. Once you have that language for saying ...

However, the sources said that at the heart of the Oslo initiative lies a new declarative programming language currently known simply as “D.” If, as the code name implies, Oslo were a city ...

What, exactly is a "declarative" programming language? According to that old standby, Wikipedia, a program is "declarative," if it describes what something is like, as opposed to how to build it.

Declarative programming focuses on defining the desired result of the program rather than the steps to take to achieve it. HTML can be considered a declarative language—“This web page should ...