Declarative vs. Imperative Systems Declarative systems and languages are different from what we typically think of as computer code. Most computer languages are imperative, not declarative.

Some network teams are finding power and simplicity in the shift from telling devices what to do—imperative programming—to describing what they should be—declarative programming.

Not all of these projects implement declarative languages. Another interesting feature of Cascalog is that it allows imperative programming to be inserted into the declarative system if it is needed.

Lingua Franca Language and writing in academe. Being a Declarative (or Interrogative, or Imperative, or Exclamative) ...

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 many ...

Computer scientists contrast imperative programming languages with declarative ones: A clause in an imperative programming language gives an instruction for what the machine should do next ...

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 ...

Functional programming languages are declarative, meaning that a computation’s logic is expressed without describing its control flow. In declarative programming, there are no statements.

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates touted on Monday Microsoft’s plans to build a declarative modeling language that could greatly reduce the need to code. Speaking at Microsoft’s 2008 Office System ...

For instance, Terraform takes a declarative approach where you state your system definitions in a proprietary configuration language known as HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL).