A new model of declarative programming languages has emerged for building infrastructure as code, promising more simplicity and safety than imperative languages. In the last dozen years or so, we’ve ...

In a variety of venues, the application of declarative programming practices and principles are starting to expand in ways that solve many long-standing frustrations with making technology work ...

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.

As IT moves towards greater automation in operations and developers build systems on Kubernetes-based platforms, declarative systems are getting more attention. Over the past several years, a lot of ...

A handful of Microsoft's top developers are working to create a new programming language, code-named "D," which will be at the heart of the Microsoft's push toward more intuitive software modeling. D ...

Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming ...

In late fall 2007, Microsoft outlined its plans and goals for Oslo software-oriented architecture (SOA) technology and strategy, hinting at the same time that it had a new modeling language in the ...

Description: A survey of language design issues and their implications for translation and run-time support. Examination of modern programming languages and features: Abstract data and control ...