Nice article. Just a remark though, I think CSS would be a better illustration of declarative programming than SQL, after all with SQL you're executing a statement so it's still a little bit imperative (and you can have side effects with UPDATE statements too), whereas in CSS you can only write rules.
That's a totally valid point, CSS is definitely a better example of a declarative language. I actually did go back and forth on which one to include. Thanks for the input!
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Nice article. Just a remark though, I think CSS would be a better illustration of declarative programming than SQL, after all with SQL you're executing a statement so it's still a little bit imperative (and you can have side effects with UPDATE statements too), whereas in CSS you can only write rules.
That's a totally valid point, CSS is definitely a better example of a declarative language. I actually did go back and forth on which one to include. Thanks for the input!