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—imperative programming—to describing what they should be—declarative programming.

Declarative vs. Imperative Systems. Declarative systems and languages are different from what we typically think of as computer code. ... This is the classic programming language paradigm.