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.

This is what is known as declarative programming, and it differs from imperative programming, which focuses on the means to the end, rather than the end itself.

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 ...

Functional programming languages are declarative, meaning that a computation’s logic is expressed without describing its control flow. In declarative programming, there are no statements.

Suppose you are to build a software application for a startup from scratch, would functional programming be a better choice than imperative programming?

Declarative and imperative configuration commands One of the interesting features of the Kubernetes container orchestration technology is that it’s state-based. Under Kubernetes, once you define how ...

Functional programming is a significant paradigm shift in the software world over the past 10 years. Slowly but surely, it has moved from a niche feature of a few uncommonly used languages to a ...

While the language itself is object-oriented, it also supports procedural, functional, and imperative programming, one of the factors that makes it remarkably flexible.

In the decades since I puttered around with my Spectrum, computer programming grew from a nerdy hobby into a vocational near-imperative, the one skill to acquire to survive technological ...