A programming paradigm in which a program expresses the logic of a computation, what result is wanted, without explicitly describing the control flow needed to produce it, leaving the how to the underlying system; SQL and regular expressions are common declarative languages.
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Core PrincipleA program describes what it must accomplish in terms of the problem domain, rather than fully describing how to accomplish it. 1 Connections
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1. Declarative programming - Wikipedia
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Languages that permit this style allow a developer to minimize or eliminate side effects by describing what the program must accomplish in terms of the problem domain, rather than fully describing how to accomplish it.
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