Comparing Declarative and Imperative Programming
Explore the key differences between imperative and declarative programming paradigms as applied in Elixir. Learn how declarative styles emphasize what needs to be done rather than how, using recursion, pattern matching, and higher-order functions. Understand how this approach results in simpler, more maintainable, and less error-prone code.
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Imperative vs. Declarative programming
Imperative programming focuses on how to solve a problem, describing each step as actions.
Functional programming, by contrast, is declarative. Declarative programming focuses on what is necessary to solve a problem, describing the data flow. Declarative programming usually generates less code than imperative programming. Less code means fewer things to write, more ...