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Active and Reactive programming

October 24, 2008 at 6:46 pm | In Technology | No Comments
by Chris Davenport

Imperative languages like C and java and just about everything else I use are very demanding. You use the languages to say things like “do that”, and it does. Deeply fulfilling for a type A personality, I’m sure.

But it lacks something. Other languages, like lisp, prolog, etc.. have different concepts. I don’t know the computer science term for it, I think it’s “functional”, versus “imperative”, where you define what you want to happen, but not when. I think I can get a handle on it if I think in terms of actions.

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