x wrote:
> "Jonathan Leffler" <jleffler_at_earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:B8aNf.1770$6I.1000_at_newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> > x wrote:
> > > "dawn" <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> Now I'm trying to sort out the difference between declarative and
> > >> imperative as well as the reason I would want to use one over the
> > >> other.
> > >
> > > Do you know the difference between a command and a statement ?
> > > I find it hard to believe that you don't know.
> >
> > I'll bite - without a context, I don't know what you mean by the
> > difference between a command and a statement. In some circles, they are
> > essentially synonyms; in other places, they are different, but I'm not
> > sure I'd care to characterize the difference.
>
> > What do you think the difference is?
> Join the army and you'll find out.
Then at the top level, what we are doing when we write software is a
command. We are commanding the computer to do something, right? It
seems it would make sense, then, to eat the elephant one bite at a
time. Maybe? --dawn
Received on Wed Mar 01 2006 - 09:45:07 CST
