On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 09:45 -0800, Jonathan Cast wrote:
On 6 Jan 2008, at 3:02 AM, Derek Elkins wrote:
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 17:54 -0600, Jonathan Cast wrote:
Programming languages are generally classified into three groups, imperative, functional, and logical. The difference is in the style of programming encouraged (or mandated, for older languages) by the language.
Usually the divide is imperative v. declarative with the four major paradigms (procedural, OO and logic, FP respectively) being subgroups of those divisions.
And your explanation of this classification is?
I find the term `declarative' to be almost completely meaningless.
I was originally thinking of having the final sentence: "There are no clear, accepted meanings for any of these terms." Many people find any, perhaps all, of the terms: "functional", "object oriented", "imperative" to be almost completely meaningless. Mostly the terms have no prescriptive meaning, but rather are defined by example. At any rate, I wasn't and didn't explain anything as that was not my intention. I was merely pointing out that your usage is against the "norms" and in a way similar in its disconcertingness to saying, "American politics is classified into three groups, conservatives, Democrats and libertarians."