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Declarativeb> programming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

According to a different definition, a program is "declarativeb>" if it is written in a functional programming language, logic programming language, or constraint programming language.
Declarativeb> programming language for programming languages that support declarativeb> programming
In a declarativeb> program you write (declare) a data structure that is processed by a standard algorithm (for that language) to produce the desired result.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_programming (728 words)



Declarativeb> programming language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Functional programming languages are declarativeb> in that functions relate their output to their input — without defining a strict order to evaluate any operations.
Data-oriented programming languages and query languages are declarativeb> in that queries are not given in terms of how to find data but instead give criteria for the desired data (SQL is an example).
A declarativeb> programming language is a high-level language that describes a problem rather than defining a solution — it makes use of declarativeb> programming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_programming_language (361 words)



Declarativeb> Programming in Prolog - Apt (ResearchIndex)

Abstract: We try to assess to what extent declarativeb> programming can be realized in Prolog and which aspects of correctness of Prolog programs can be dealt with by means of declarativeb> interpretation.
30 the occur-check free Prolog programs - Apt, Pellegrini - 1992
48 the unification free Prolog programs - Apt, Etalle - 1993

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/447719.html (610 words)



declara.txt

Pure declarativeb> programming languages are a holy grail that is unlikely ever to be achieved, unless artificial intelligence results in computer programs that are smarter than computer programmers, and that's a long, long way off.
DECLARATIVEb> programming is programming by telling the computer WHAT, not HOW.
Declarativeb> vs. Imperative IMPERATIVE programming is programming where you "tell the computer what to do" using imperative statements.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/ftp/pub/garbage/cs345/class-notes/declara.txt (5216 words)



2cs24 Declarativeb>

Declarativeb> languages are considered to be specialised in that they were initially intended for use in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and expert systems programming.
DECLARATIVEb> LANGUAGES: Declarativeb> programs, in turn, are made up of sets of definitions or equations describing relations which specify what is to be computed (not how it is to be computed), e.g.
DECLARATIVEb> LANGUAGES: In declarativeb> programs variables can only ever have one value "assigned" to them and this value can not be altered during a program's execution.

http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~frans/OldLectures/2CS24/declarative.html (1107 words)



A Note on Declarativeb> Programming Paradigms and the Future of Definitional Programming

Declarativeb> programming in the weak sense means that the programmer apart from the logic of a program also must give control information to yield an efficient program.
Most declarativeb> programming languages stem from work in artificial intelligence and automated theorem proving, areas where the need for a higher level of abstraction and a clear semantic model of programs is obvious.
Declarativeb> programming in the strong sense then means that the programmer only has to supply the logic of an algorithm and that all control information is supplied automatically by the system.

http://www.cs.chalmers.se/pub/users/oloft/Papers/wm96/wm96.html (5508 words)



java.net: Ruling Out: Rule Engines and Declarativeb> Programming Come to Java

Declarativeb> programming is distinct from imperative programming, which is more commonly known as procedural programming.
Rule engines and declarativeb> programming give you the ability to quickly alter the behavior of your system in a way which is difficult to program in raw Java, and to manage and interact with data in a more human way.
Declarativeb> programming has been around for at least 30 years, but is presently enjoying a renaissance due to the rise of open source software, XML, and a reinvigorated interest in rule engine technology.

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2004/08/19/rulingout.html (2533 words)



ONJava.com -- Declarativeb> Programming in Java

There are two approaches to programming called imperative programming and declarativeb> programming.
What makes EJB components special is the declarativeb> programming model through which we can specify the services such as security, persistence, transaction etc., that the container should provide.
Declarativeb> programming describes a set of conditions, and lets the system figure out how to fulfill them.

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/04/21/declarative.html (764 words)



CoDe Magazine - Article: Anything To Declare?

I prefer to think of declarativeb> programming as an "instantiation and invocation concept." In the label example you are still working with objects.
In declarativeb> programming, on the other hand, the developer simply states what is to be achieved, and leaves it up to the system to get the job done.
Declarativeb> programming simply helps us instantiate the needed components and immediately invoke a certain method (it doesn't really matter which one).

http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=050053 (1384 words)



Declarativeb> Logic Programming Research Project

After composing the program in a declarativeb> way, the programmer may wish to consider program's imperative meaning, and add control structures to improve the efficiency.
A logic program is written as a set of logical definitions (declarations, specifications.) The same program is interpreted by a computer as a set of imperative procedures.
This research project was concerned with designing a logic programming system which could offer the programmer a wide expressive power and minimize the need for thinking about the procedural meaning of the program.

http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/jan.plaza/research/lp (1076 words)



Functional and Declarativeb> Programming in Education (FDPE05)

Functional and declarativeb> programming plays an increasingly important role in computing education at all levels.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together educators and others who are interested in exchanging ideas on how to use a functional or declarativeb> programming style in the classroom or in e-learning environments.
Submissions will be refereed by the program organisers who will call upon other members of the functional/declarativeb> programming community for expert advice.

http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/fdpe05 (317 words)



Declarativeb> programming language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Declarativeb> programming is in contrast to Imperative programming via imperative programming languages, where serial orders (imperatives) are given to a computer: "Take this, do that".
An imperative programming language is (almost) the same as a procedural language or procedural programming language.
The distinctions are never sharp; any computer language has an element of initializing a process in a computer, in order to be of any use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_programming_language (206 words)



Declarativeb> Programming Across the Undergraduate Curriculum - Sabry (ResearchIndex)

Abstract: In its ultimate form, declarativeb> programming provides solutions to problems using only a statement of the problem as the program.
Despite the pervasiveness of declarativeb> programming in a typical undergraduate curriculum, the exposition is based on isolated...
Historically this level of abstraction has been associated with specialized programming languages, but it is now routinely used by both students and professional programmers in a variety of contexts, programming languages, and courses.

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/237386.html (299 words)



Our Research on Declarativeb> Meta Programming

To express this interaction between the program code and the (higher-level) documentation of a software system, we believe that a declarativeb> programming language is highly suited.
Declarativeb> meta-programming is an emerging technique that is not quite out of the lab as yet.
In general, what is understood by "declarativeb>" programming is that it is focussed on what the program is supposed to do rather than on how it will achieve its tasks.

http://prog.vub.ac.be/research/DMP (5182 words)



Caltech Computer Science Technical Reports - Parallel Programming with Declarativeb> Ada

Declarativeb> programming languages (e.g., functional and logic programming languages) are semantically elegant and implicitly express parallelism at a high level.
Such a language combines the advantages of parallel declarativeb> programming with the strengths and familiarity of the underlying imperative language.
Declarativeb> Ada integrates parallel and sequential composition, allowing sequential input and output from within parallel declarativeb> programs.

http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechCSTR:1993.cs-tr-93-03 (138 words)



Declarativeb> programming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Declarativeb> programming languages are extensively used in solving problems related to artificial intelligence, constraint-satisfaction problems, databases, configuration management and Inter-process communication.
Declarativeb> programming is an approach to computer programming that involves the creation of a set of conditions that describe a solution space, but leaves the interpretation of the specific steps needed to arrive at that solution up to an unspecified interpreter.
Declarativeb> programming thus takes a different approach from the traditional imperative programming found in Fortran, C or Pascal which requires the programmer to provide a list of instructions to execute in a specified order.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_programming (410 words)



charming_python_b11.txt

CHARMING PYTHON #B11: Declarativeb> Mini-Languages Programming as assertion rather than instruction David Mertz, Ph.D. Essence Preceder, Gnosis Software, Inc. December, 2002 The object orientation and transparent introspective capabilities of Python allow you to easily create -declarativeb> mini-lanaguages- for programming tasks.
On the other hand, there are also many programming languages that are -declarativeb>- in style, including both functional and logic languages, and also including both general purpose and specialized ones.
Of course, not all programming problems are about constraints--or at least that is not always a natural formulation.

http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/charming_python_b11.txt (1954 words)



The International Conference on Principles and Practice of Declarativeb> Programming (PPDP)

PPDP sollicits papers on all topics related to declarativeb> programming in a broad sense, including the use of declarativeb> methods in programming, and the design, implementation and application of novel programming languages that support such methods.
PPDP aims to complement other more focused programming language conferences by offering a forum for discussion and cross-fertilization of ideas to researchers working on various paradigms or on different aspects of declarativeb> programming.
PPDP is an annual programming language conference that was created in 1999 as the union of two former conferences: Programming Languages, Implementations, Logics and Programs (PLILP) and Algebraic and Logic Programming (ALP).

http://pauillac.inria.fr/~fages/PPDP (912 words)



CoDe Magazine - Article: ASP.NET Development Through Web Controls and Declarativeb> Programming

Declarativeb> programming by way of custom controls has always been a part of Windows (WinForm) development.
In the end, I hope to leave you with an understanding of what declarativeb> programming is, how you can use it when developing ASP.NET Web applications, and how, with the help of WebControls, to use it as an approach to ASP.NET development.
This is declarativeb> programming in ASP.NET at its simplest.

http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0503051 (1269 words)



Programming language - Wikipédia

The rigorous definition of the meaning of programming languages is the subject of Formal semantics.
Programming languages are not error tolerant; however, the burden of recognising and using the special vocabulary is reduced by help messages generated by the programming language implementation.
The development of programming languages, unsurprisingly, follows closely the development of the physical and electronic processes used in today's computers.

http://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language (1603 words)



Computer Aids for VLSI Design

Declarativeb> programming is the use of unsequenced statements that are performed in response to external stimuli.
One difference between declarativeb> and imperative programs is that there is no clear sequence of execution in a declarativeb> constraint system.
Such systems can do arbitrary functions, such as hierarchical simulation [Saito, Uehara, and Kawato].

http://www.rulabinsky.com/cavd/text/chap08-3.html (1933 words)



Citebase - Propositional satisfiability in declarativeb> programming

Several answer-set programming formalisms have been developed on the basis of logic programming with the semantics of stable models.
Answer-set programming (ASP) paradigm is a way of using logic to solve search problems.
Logic programming with stable model semantics as a constraint programming paradigm.

http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/citations?id=oai:arXiv.org:cs/0211033 (981 words)



mozart.htm

In our experience, there are two essentially different styles of declarativeb> logic programming, which can be called the 'algorithmic' (or 'directed') style and the 'free' (or 'undirected') style, depending on whether the programmer knows the control flow or not.
The free style is used often in constraint programming, theorem proving, and computational linguistics.Usually, the programmer specifies the problem's logical constraints, purely declaratively, and then separately specifies the inference (or search,or resolution) strategy.The strategy gives partial information about the operational semantics.
Prolog is quite weak for specifying the strategy; a logic programming language intended for the free style usually extends Prolog in substantial ways.

http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/compulog/issue7/projects/mozart.htm (801 words)



Citebase - Enhancing Usefulness of Declarativeb> Programming Frameworks through Complete Integration

Declarativeb> programming and clinical medicine:On the use of Gisela in the MedView project.
The framework and methodology developed provide two alternative application programming interfaces (APIs): Programming using objects or programming using a traditional equational declarativeb> style.
The Gisela framework for declarativeb> programming was developed with the specific aim of providing a tool that would be useful for knowledge representation and reasoning within real-world applications.

http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/citations?id=oai:arXiv.org:cs/0207054 (501 words)



Drools - Declarativeb> Programming

Declarativeb> programming deals with what is, as opposed with the how to normally encountered in imperative programming languages.
The rules declare by way of the condition what should occur, but do not specify the procedure for actually testing the conditions.
This is useful in complex fact-based evaluations and in creating nondeterministic languages, where a single what is can be used to solve multiple problems with different how to components.

http://drools.codehaus.org/Declarative+Programming (307 words)



MyXaml Wiki - Declarativeb> Vs Imperative Programming

Even if they aren't correct, understanding the differences between declarativeb> and imperative programming is an educational experience because it gives you a different way of looking at how you program.
Most introductions to programming (and even accepted techniques, like using the Visual Studio designer) create programs that embed both declarativeb> and imperative aspects in code.
Declarativeb> programming is something we do every day too.

http://www.myxaml.com/wiki/ow.asp?DeclarativeVsImperativeProgramming (962 words)



Know Dot Net - Attributes and Declarativeb> Programming

Declarativeb> Programming is a methodology who's time has come and while it may seem a bit abstract and overly complex at first, I assure you that once you start using it, you'll fall in love with it quickly.
Before I even knew what Declarativeb> Programming was, I was yearning for it.
Not in the literal sense, but they do allow you to program in a declarativeb> manner and that's why I bring them up.

http://www.knowdotnet.com/articles/attributes.html (2185 words)



Satya Komatineni's Blog: Parts, Pipelines, and Declarativeb> programming: An architectural model

This kind of programming where the programmers compose subtasks declaratively can be said to be declarativeb> programming.
The quoted example will be analyzed to explain parts, pipelines, and declarativeb> programming.
But this idea of a "Part" that is declaratively specified becomes pungent when the Part becomes reusable.

http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/992 (1624 words)



PPDP 2005: Call for Papers

At the level of methodology, the use of logic-based principles in the design of tools for program development, analysis, and verification relative to all declarativeb> paradigms is of interest.
Papers related to the use of declarativeb> paradigms and tools in industry and education are especially solicited.
The goal is to stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for specifying, performing, and analyzing computations, and to stimulate cross-fertilization by including work from one community that could be of particular interest and relevance to the others.

http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~afelty/ppdp05 (491 words)



PADL 06: Practical Aspects of Declarativeb> Languages

Well-known questions include designing for scalability, language extensions for application deployment, and programming environments.
Declarativeb> languages build on sound theoretical foundations to provide attractive frameworks for application development.
Thus, applications often drive the progress in the theory and implementation of declarativeb> systems, and benefit from this progress as well.

http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/pvh/PADL06.html (500 words)

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