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RE: Can you stand yet another SOAP-RPC vs HTTP GET question?

• To: "'Didier PH Martin'" <martind@n...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Can you stand yet another SOAP-RPC vs HTTP GET question?
• From: Bill de hÓra <dehora@e...>
• Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:50:00 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <00c501c1e895$437dbed0$6401a8c0@didierhome>

 
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> In procedural languages you say *how* to do things. In 
> functional languages you say *what* you want. For instance, 
> languages like Visual Basic are procedural language because 
> you specify to the system a sequence of actions to perform, 
> something like "display", "calculate", "store", "recall". In 
> the case of functional language, you do not have to say 
> "display" you specify what you want as final result. For 
> instance by specifying a template. There are also other more 
> subtle elements to consider but these two elements catch the 
> essential spirit of procedural vs. functional or the 
> opposition of "how" vs. "what". In one case you tell the 
> system what kind of action to perform, in the other case you 
> specify what you want as final result.
>
> Off course, Visual basic is a strange beast since you 
> visually specify the visual end result by placing components 
> in a form. And this could be considered as specifying "what" 
> we want in terms of visual layout [1]. So probably we would 
> have to use a more precise definition for both concepts. 

Sounds more like declarative versus procedural. C is procedural,
Prolog is declarative. XML-RPC is proceduralish, XSLT is
declarativish. Functional programming normally means programming
without assignments.

Bill de hÓra

 

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