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From: kh@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk (Kevin Hammond CMP)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: The meaning of "declarative"
Summary: Lisp isn't declarative
Message-ID: <152@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Oct 88 13:34:39 GMT
References: <ALF.88Oct2184429@hathor.sics.se> <818@etive.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <818@etive.ed.ac.uk>, jha@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Jamie Andrews) writes:
> I think the term was first used to
> draw a distinction between imperative languages and languages
> like LISP.  So in functional languages, programs describe
> functions, and in logic programming, programs describe
> relations.

But Lisp has assignment, I/O and other imperative features. How can it
be declarative?    Lisp is   functional   yes  (it has   higher  order
functions), but declarative no.

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