- Imperative programming languages focus on describing how to achieve a result by specifying a sequence of commands, while Declarative programming languages focus on describing what the desired outcome is without specifying the steps to achieve it.
- Imperative programming languages involve explicit control flow management through loops and conditionals. They also involve changes in program’s state through assignments and updates. However the declarative languages provide abstraction from control flow and state changes.
- Imperative programming languages example: C++
- Declarative programming languages example: SQL
Does matlab have any declarative programming paradigm version?
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Is matlab a purely imperative programming paradigm? Would it be possble to write some declarative or functional goal based code piece in some way?
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Shubham
on 10 Oct 2024 at 4:17
Edited: Shubham
on 10 Oct 2024 at 4:20
As per my understanding, Imperative and Declarative Programming Languages have some key differences:
However note that every programming language would be imperative under the hood, because eventually the entire code would be converted to a set of simple instructions after compilation.
So essentially declarative languages are just highly abstracted imperative languages.
To answer your query, we can indeed write declarative code in MATLAB. For instance, using MATLAB’s Symbolic Math Toolbox, we can define and solve equations without detailing the solution steps. Example:
syms x
eqn = x^2 - 4 == 0;
solutions = solve(eqn, x);
disp(solutions);
I hope this helps!
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