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jraph on Feb 7, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: All programming philosophies are about state

This made me smile. I'm not sure I get the declarative one though, can someone expand on this? Is it because the sentence is very declarative? or because declarative programming allows lets to declare expensive to compute stuff (by mistake) too easily?

overtomanu on Feb 7, 2023 | [–]

You don't tell the computer how to do the task, but you tell what result you want. Eg: SQL

cubefox on Feb 7, 2023 | [–]

I think it's the first.

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