I’ve created a Java application that contrasts the imperative, object-oriented and declarative, functional programming approaches to writing code. Study the code below and then I’ll point out ...

For example, to add up the numbers in a list, an imperative programming ... with safe thread handling. In functional programming, the preference is a declarative approach. Summing up a list ...

Some network teams are finding power and simplicity in the shift from telling devices what to do, using imperative programming, to describing what they should be, using declarative programming.

Imperative configuration means that to describe the configuration of the resource, you execute a command from a terminal’s command prompt. Of course, the terminal’s machine must have permission to ...

Scripted vs. declarative pipelines are different only in their programmatic approach. One uses a declarative programming model, while the other uses an imperative programming model. But they both run ...