You see, we don’t get functional programming by starting with an imperative language and cutting off its legs. A purely functional subset of Java or C or Python would be miserable little languages.

Although an imperative programming language might also be able to make use of the handy sliding window function or MapReduce operations like in the above example, ...

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.

A new model of declarative programming languages has emerged for building infrastructure as code, promising more simplicity and safety than imperative languages. In the last dozen years or so, we ...

In fact, my first programming language was BASIC on the ZX Spectrum which was very much imperative. So much so, that all the lines were numbered as ’10, 20, 30’ etc.

The programming imperative With technology at the core of our world, why isn't programming taught from the earliest grades? Written by ZDNET Editors, Contributor July 10, 2006 at 4:38 a.m. PT ...