i'm looking at a book right now that says imperative prog style says *how* to do something; declarative says *what* to do
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Replying to @Carols10cents
but i'm confused: someone, somewhere has to tell the computer how to do a thing eventually
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Replying to @Carols10cents
so isn't declarative style just encapsulation/abstraction of the "how"?
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Replying to @Carols10cents
I think it is a bit more than an abstraction, because being declarative allows the computer to choose the how based on other factors.
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Replying to @darrel_miller
well but someone had to write the bits of how that the computer chooses from at some point
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