Declarative Programming and Mini-Languages (O'Reilly) [LWN.net]

David Mertz talks about declarative programming techniques on O'Reilly. "This article extends my discussion of advanced programming, but strays into an area that is not exclusively object oriented. What we are interested in for this installment is ways of writing programs that are declarative rather than imperative. In many cases, simply notating facts is more concise and less error prone than providing instructions. A number of less common programming languages make declarative styles predominant, but it is also possible to use a declarative style within generally imperative languages. In this article, as with the others in this series, I will focus on techniques as exemplified in Python."

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