Brian Epstein on Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:20:05 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Types of programming paradigms


> You forgot this one.
>
> Declarative Programming
> 	Programs that are made up of sets of definitions or equations
> 	describing relations which specify what is to be computed.
>
> 	Declarative programs also have no destructive assignment; therefore
> 	they are side-effect free.  This also leads to the property that
> 	declarative programs can be executed in any order, which will
> 	not have an impact on the final result.
>
> 	- SQL
> 	- XSLT

Good point!

ep

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