On 6 Jan 2008, at 1:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Derek Elkins writes:
Jonathan Cast wrote:
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."
Clear, no.
Accepted, yes.
Let Jonathan Cast repeat that statement to people who organise
conferences
on Declarative Programming, or those who assembled:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_programming
http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/foldoc/90/29.htm
(or http://foldoc.org/foldoc.cgi?declarative+language)
To quote your last citation:
> declarative language: Any relational language or functional language.
Yes, the term `declarative' means something in the sense that we can
tell whether any given language is declarative or not, so I should
have been more clear. To wit, I do not believe the term
`declarative' has any single referent, even in the sense that the
term `functional' has any single referent. I find the only
similarity between Haskell and Prolog to be that neither is imperative.
I can't see what is the purpose of all your argument...
Granted.
jcc
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