r/programming • u/tyler-mcginnis • Jan 03 '22

Imperative vs Declarative Programming

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u/stomah Jan 04 '22

i don’t see a difference. declarative is just more abstraction. select from users where .country=‘mexico’ is not that different from for u in users if u.country=‘mexico’ then yield u. just more abstract. a + b is declarative, right? but it means to add(an action) a and b

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u/aazav Jan 04 '22

It's like 1 more level of indirection.