The Downfall of Imperative Programming

[Kagamin]

On Tuesday, 10 April 2012 at 17:19:00 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> I am a fan of declarative expression, I prefer functional 
> approaches
> over explicitly imperative ones.  For the moment though using 
> single
> assignment in imperative languages with all the lambda/closure
> technology and using functional programming thinking is the best
> compromise.

Imperative languages only emulate functional style to some 
extent. They remain inherently imperative and impure. And for 
declarative syntax to really fly you need an FP language, purity 
and immutability for sure.