Russ Abbott wrote:
I got only one response to my page about procedural vs. declarative readings of Oz programs. I believe (but I'm not expert enough to know) that the proposed perspective is significantly different from the traditional one. I would appreciate any comments. To highlight the difference, here is a short piece from near the end of the page.
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What do you think of this? Right, wrong, boring?
IMO this is perfectly right. The fact is, the programmer has complete control. There is no limitation because of a particular programming model, you can choose the right paradigm for each subproblem.
For the Minesweeper application I wrote, I had to partition a set of indices. I could describe the partition in logic terms, though the way to build the partition came to me as a stateful process. The stateful version is actually simpler and much more efficient than any declarative means I could think of.
Cheers, raph _________________________________________________________________________________ mozart-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.mozart-oz.org/mailman/listinfo/mozart-users
