Also known as a "declarative language," users concentrate on defining the input and output rather than the program steps required in a procedural programming language such as C++ or Java.

A term from the realm of grammar is picked up and used not in its original sense, writes Geoffrey Pullum, but in a sense that the user feels it ought to have.

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates touted on Monday Microsoft’s plans to build a declarative modeling language that could greatly reduce the need to code. Speaking at Microsoft’s 2008 Office System ...

A handful of Microsoft's top developers are working to create the new programming language, codenamed "D." Sources who wish to be remain anonymous described D as a declarative language aimed at ...

Second, because language is a relatively well-understood cognitive domain, linguistic theory and related language disciplines will probably shed light on the workings of declarative and procedural ...