Although an imperative programming language might also be able to make use of the handy sliding window function or MapReduce operations like in the above example, ...

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, we ...

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.

You see, we don’t get functional programming by starting with an imperative language and cutting off its legs. A purely functional subset of Java or C or Python would be miserable little languages.

In imperative programming data is generally mutable, so you can assign a value to a variable and change it later in the program. At one point x might be 42 and a line of code later it might be 42 ...

Functional programming is not new – the first functional language was developed in the late 1950s. But historically, imperative languages had substantial memory and speed advantages when applied on ...

In a variety of venues, the application of declarative programming practices and principles are starting to expand in ways that solve many long-standing frustrations with making technology work ...

This unit provides an introduction to imperative and functional programming, which are two of the fundamental paradigms of programming. They form together with object-orientated programming one of the ...

The programming imperative With technology at the core of our world, why isn't programming taught from the earliest grades? Written by ZDNET Editors, Contributor July 10, 2006 at 4:38 a.m. PT ...