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Is This Programming Paradigm New? [closed]

preface: to define what a programming paradigm is in context of this post, I will use the definition used in wikipedia A programming paradigm is a relatively high-level way to conceptualize and ...
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Is declarative programming just imperative programming 'under the hood'?

From my understanding, in declarative programming, programmer only need to define the end result, but not how to compute it. But for execute that said function, the function must be pre-defined by the ...
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Is assignment declarative or imperative?

On Wikipedia, the article Programming paradigms defines declarative as a paradigm in which the programmer merely declares properties of the desired result, but not how to compute it; imperative as a ...
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Do functional programming languages disallow side effects?

According to Wikipedia, Functional programming languages, that are Declarative, they disallow side effects. Declarative programming in general, attempts to minimize or eliminate side effects. Also, ...
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How to better start learning programming - with imperative or declarative languages? [closed]

Someone is interested in learning to program. What language paradigm should I recomend him - imperative or declarative? And what programming language should he start with? I think that declarative ...
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