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Declarative programming focuses on 'what' a program should accomplish rather than 'how' to achieve it, featuring high-level abstractions and statelessness. Its advantages include conciseness, readability, and better optimization, while drawbacks involve limited control and debugging complexity. Common applications include SQL, functional programming, and web technologies, with increasing popularity in modern development frameworks.

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Declarative_Programming_Paradigm_Presentation

Declarative programming focuses on 'what' a program should accomplish rather than 'how' to achieve it, featuring high-level abstractions and statelessness. Its advantages include conciseness, readability, and better optimization, while drawbacks involve limited control and debugging complexity. Common applications include SQL, functional programming, and web technologies, with increasing popularity in modern development frameworks.

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Declarative Programming

Paradigm
Characteristics, Pros & Cons,
Applications, and Popularity
Characteristics
• • Focus on 'What': Describes what the
program should do.
• • Abstracted Control Flow: Runtime
determines how to achieve goals.
• • High-level Abstraction: Offers higher-level
constructs.
• • Statelessness: Results depend only on
inputs.
• • Common in Query Languages: Used in
databases and domain-specific languages.
Pros
• • Conciseness: More concise than imperative
code.
• • Readability: Easier to read and understand.
• • Less Error-Prone: Fewer issues with control
flow.
• • Optimizations by Compilers: Better
execution efficiency.
• • Parallelism: Easier to parallelize due to
statelessness.
Cons
• • Limited Control: Less control over execution
mechanics.
• • Debugging Complexity: Harder to track
execution flow.
• • Learning Curve: Challenging for imperative
programmers.
• • Overhead: Potential runtime performance
costs.
• • Not Universally Applicable: May not suit all
problems.
Applications
• • SQL: Language for querying databases.
• • Functional Programming: Languages like
Haskell.
• • Logic Programming: Used in Prolog.
• • Configuration Management: Tools like
Ansible, Terraform.
• • HTML/CSS: Defining web structure and
styles.
Popularity
• • Widely used in database management and
web development.
• • Tools like SQL and HTML are ubiquitous.
• • Growing popularity in modern development
with frameworks like React.js.
• • Strong communities around functional and
logic programming.

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