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Declarative languages — Paradigm of the past or challenge of the future?

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Declarative database query languages have recently been criticized by the research community. Proponents of database programming languages and object-oriented databases recommended doing away with declarative means for specifying retrieval, except for perhaps ad-hoc querying. Supporters of deductive databases and logic programming want to extend declarative query languages into full programming languages while retaining declarativity. It is our conviction that neither approach will lead to a satisfactory solution. We claim instead that languages offering both paradigms in full extension are desirable and can be achieved without suffering from the drawbacks encountered when simply combining existing query and programming languages. In this paper we outline the basic design decisions of an experimental language aimed at a knowledge-based style of persistent programming.

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    Rainer Manthey

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Manthey, R. (1991). Declarative languages — Paradigm of the past or challenge of the future?. In: Schmidt, J.W., Stogny, A.A. (eds) Next Generation Information System Technology. EWDW 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 504. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-54141-1_1

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